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13 upcoming talks and 3291 talks in the archive.

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Nonmonotonic flow curves and shear banding in granular flows

UserDr Christopher Ness, University of Edinburgh.

HouseMR2.

ClockFriday 21 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Turbulent zonal jets: self-organization and wave-mean flow interactions

UserDr Daphné Lemasquerier, University of St Andrews.

HouseMR2.

ClockFriday 14 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

The mathematics and physics of wound healing

UserProfessor Tanniemola Liverpool, University of Bristol.

HouseMR2.

ClockFriday 07 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Fast flow of an Oldroyd-B fluid through a slowly varying contraction

UserProfessor John Hinch, DAMTP.

HouseMR2.

ClockFriday 28 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Post-doc talks

UserPost-doc talks, DAMTP.

HouseMR2.

ClockFriday 21 February 2025, 14:00-17:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Do we really need more data?

UserMax Langtry, PhD student, CUED.

HouseJDB Seminar Room, CUED.

ClockFriday 14 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Synchronization in Navier-Stokes turbulence and its role in data-driven modeling

UserProfessor Masanobu Inubushi, Tokyo University of Science.

HouseMR2.

ClockFriday 14 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

The structure and lifecycle of stratified mixing in forced shear flows

UserAdrien Lefauve (DAMTP, University of Cambridge).

HouseMR3, CMS.

ClockMonday 10 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Bubble dynamics in complex fluids

UserProfessor Valeria Garbin, Delft University of Technology.

HouseFluid Mechanics Webinar Series.

ClockFriday 07 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

To Bend or to Break? — new views on the hardening of metals

UserProfessor Lindsay Greer ( Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy).

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 03 February 2025, 18:00-19:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Vibration Energy Harvesting Based on Internal Resonance

UserProf. Li-Qun Chen, Harbin Institute of Technology.

HouseJDB Seminar Room, CUED.

ClockFriday 31 January 2025, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Cracking the capillary code: towards mesoscopic self-assembly and functional micromachines

UserProfessor Nicolas Vandewalle, University of Liège.

HouseMR2.

ClockFriday 31 January 2025, 16:00-17:00

Sedgwick Club talks

The magic of log ratios: A different look at geochemistry

UserDr Max Frenzel - Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf.

HouseHarker 1 lecture room, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockMonday 27 January 2025, 18:00-19:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Towards asymptotic models and minimal seeds for the geodynamo

UserProfessor Steven Tobias, University of Leeds.

HouseMR2.

ClockFriday 24 January 2025, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Green Logistics

User Professor Alan McKinnon, Kuhne Logistics University.

HouseLR5, CUED.

ClockFriday 13 December 2024, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Wetting and swelling of elastic fibers

UserProfessor Suzie Protière, Sorbonne Université.

HouseMR2.

ClockFriday 06 December 2024, 16:00-17:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Meeting the Challenge of Net Zero after COP29

UserProf. David Reiner (Judge Business School).

HouseMR3, CMS.

ClockMonday 02 December 2024, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Plankton Blinders: navigating turbulence with limited information

UserProfessor Christophe Eloy, Centrale Marseille.

HouseMR2.

ClockFriday 29 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Symposium on Energy and Environmental Flows

UserJeremy Phillips (Bristol), Steve Sparks (Bristol), IEEF and Dept Earth Sci Faculty.

HouseOpen Plan Area, Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 28 November 2024, 11:00-17:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Signals from the beginning of the universe

UserProfessor Jo Dunkley OBE, Joseph Henry Professor of Physics and Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 25 November 2024, 18:00-19:00

Sedgwick Club talks

Living with Volcanoes

UserProfessor David Pyle - University of Oxford.

HouseHarker 1 lecture room, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockMonday 18 November 2024, 18:00-19:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

The frozen frontiers of our solar system

UserDr Nicole Shibley, DAMTP.

HouseMR2.

ClockFriday 15 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V HILL LECTURE Pain: Why does it exist, how does it work and how can we more effectively treat it?

UserProfessor Ewan St John Smith, Professor of Nociception, Deputy Head of Department, Department of Pharmacology.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 11 November 2024, 18:00-19:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

OpenFOAM: Numerical Simulation in Computational Continuum Mechanics

UserProfessor Hrvoje Jasak, The Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseMR2.

ClockFriday 08 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Generalised Lagrangian Mean: formulation and computation

UserProfessor Jacques Vanneste, University of Edinburgh.

HouseFluid Mechanics Webinar Series.

ClockFriday 01 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Designer alloys for tailored deformation-induced phase transformations: Revealing per-grain behaviour

UserDr David Collins, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge .

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LT2.

ClockFriday 01 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Tackling climate change - going beyond emissions reduction

UserDr Shaun Fitzgerald, Centre for Climate Repair at Cambridge.

HouseMR3, CMS.

ClockMonday 28 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Observed delayed onset of turbulence due to shear instability in the ocean

UserProfessor Matthew Alford, University of California San Diego.

HouseMR2.

ClockFriday 25 October 2024, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

The role of surface tension in hydrodynamics: a new perspective

UserDr Rajesh Bhagat, DAMTP.

HouseMR2.

ClockFriday 18 October 2024, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Diagnostics Without Frontiers: A Regenerable Supply Chain For PCR In Low Resource Countries

UserProfessor Lisa Hall FRSC CBE, Professor of Analytical Biotechnology, Department of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 14 October 2024, 18:00-19:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Responsive Hydrogels: perspectives, modelling, and ongoing efforts

UserProfessor Tom Montenegro-Johnson, University of Warwick.

HouseMR2.

ClockFriday 11 October 2024, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

The fluid mechanics of splat painting

UserRoberto Zenit, Brown University.

HouseMR13.

ClockThursday 04 July 2024, 14:00-15:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Evaporation dynamics of respiratory-like droplets and their implications on virus infectivity

UserJavier Rodríguez Rodríguez, Carlos III University of Madrid.

HouseMR13.

ClockMonday 01 July 2024, 13:30-14:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Entrainment across a turbulent/turbulent interface

UserOliver Buxton, Imperial College London.

HouseMR2.

ClockFriday 14 June 2024, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Quantum computing of fluid dynamics

UserYue Yang, Peking University.

HouseMR2.

ClockFriday 07 June 2024, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Enhancing confidence in volcanic ash forecasts

UserHelen Dacre, University of Reading.

HouseMR2.

ClockFriday 31 May 2024, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Biomedical Fluid Mechanics: applications in urology and regenerative medicine

UserSarah Waters, University of Oxford.

HouseMR2.

ClockFriday 24 May 2024, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

EQUALITY-BASED FORMULATION FOR NON-SMOOTH VIBRATING SYSTEMS

UserProf. Christopher Pierre, Stevens Institute of Technology.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LT6.

ClockFriday 24 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

PhD students' talks

UserSpeakers listed in abstract.

HouseMR2.

ClockFriday 17 May 2024, 14:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Koopman Operator Theory Based Machine Learning of Dynamical Systems

UserIgor Mezic, UC Santa Barbara.

HouseMR2.

ClockFriday 10 May 2024, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

The scaling of the drag force on an accelerating plate

UserJerry Westerweel, TU Delft.

HouseMR2.

ClockFriday 03 May 2024, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Mathematical Models for Evaporating Sessile Droplets

UserStephen Wilson, University of Strathclyde.

HouseMR2.

ClockFriday 26 April 2024, 16:00-17:00

Sedgwick Club talks

Journey to the centre of the earthquake (Sedgwick Club Conference)

UserProfessor Daniel Faulkner - University of Liverpool.

HouseDepartment of Earth Sciences, Tilley Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 23 April 2024, 14:45-15:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

SCIENCE AND THE FUTURES OF MEDICINE One Day Meeting

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserOrganisers: Professor Ashok Venkitaraman, Dr James Fraser and Dr Nick Pugh.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department. Constance Tipper Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 22 March 2024, 09:00-17:15

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

SHAPE PROGRAMMABLE 3D MESOSTRUCTURES AND FUNCTIONAL DEVICES

UserProf. Yonggang Huang, McCORMICK school of Engineering, Northwestern University. .

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR5.

ClockThursday 21 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Flow and transport in the human placenta: a story with a twist

UserIgor Chernyavsky, University of Manchester.

HouseMR2.

ClockFriday 15 March 2024, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Automated discovery of material models

UserProfessor Laura De Lorenzis, ETH Zurich.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LT6.

ClockFriday 15 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Using organoids to reveal what sets the human brain apart

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserDr Madeline Lancaster, Group Leader in the Cell Biology Division, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 11 March 2024, 18:00-19:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Nonlinearity in structural dynamics: when does it matter?

UserDr Tore Butlin, University of Cambridge Engineering Department.

HouseJDB Seminar Room, CUED.

ClockFriday 08 March 2024, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Transport, aggregation and wetting of assemblies of soft fibres

UserCamille Duprat, LadHyX, École Polytechnique.

HouseMR2.

ClockFriday 08 March 2024, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - Every breath you take and every move you make - understanding cellular oxygen sensing mechanisms

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserProfessor Sir Peter Ratcliffe FRS, Distinguished Scholar, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of Oxford and Clinical Research Director, Francis Crick Institute, London..

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 06 March 2024, 18:00-19:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Damping from fragmented materials

UserDr Jem Rongong, Dept of Mechanical Engineering, University of Sheffield.

HouseJDB Seminar Room, CUED.

ClockFriday 01 March 2024, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Freezing of drops

UserDetlef Lohse, University of Twente.

HouseMR2.

ClockFriday 01 March 2024, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The quest for the first stars and first black holes with the James Webb Space Telescope

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserProfessor Roberto Maiolino FRS, Professor of Experimental Astrophysics, Kavli Institute for Cosmology.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 26 February 2024, 18:00-19:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Slippery flows in nature and industry

UserKatarzyna Kowal, University of Glasgow.

HouseMR2.

ClockFriday 23 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Sedgwick Club talks

Disasters by design

In collaboration with the Stokes Society - Room Change, Unconventional Time

UserEkbal Hussain - British Geological Survey.

HouseNihon Room, Foundess Court, Pembroke College.

ClockMonday 19 February 2024, 21:00-22:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Postdoc talks

UserPostdoc talks, DAMTP.

HouseMR2.

ClockFriday 16 February 2024, 15:00-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Going beyond emissions reduction – Climate Repair

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserDr Shaun Fitzgerald FREng OBE, Director of Research, Centre for Climate Repair, Department of Engineering.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 12 February 2024, 18:00-19:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Lahars and Huaycos: modelling erosive flash floods

UserAndrew Hogg, University of Bristol.

HouseMR2.

ClockFriday 09 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Turbulent-laminar patterns

UserLaurette Tuckerman, ESPCI Paris.

HouseMR2.

ClockFriday 02 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - The influence of GI Taylor: granular collapses, viscous gravity currents, explosive eruptions and chemical gardens

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserProfessor Herbert Huppert FRS FRSN, Professor of Theoretical Geophysics, Faculty of Mathematics .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 29 January 2024, 18:00-19:00

Sedgwick Club talks

Exploring Mars: 4000 Sols with the Curiosity Rover

This talks is in collaboration with CUAS

UserProfessor John Bridges - University of Leicester.

HouseTilley Lecture Theater, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 23 January 2024, 19:30-20:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Solution discovery in fluid dynamics using neural networks

UserChing-Yau Lai, Stanford University.

HouseMR2.

ClockFriday 01 December 2023, 16:00-17:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

When the Quantum World Breaks Through and Resistance Becomes Quantized

UserSir Michael Pepper FREng FRS - Emeritus Professor of Physics, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockMonday 27 November 2023, 18:00-19:30

Sedgwick Club talks

African roots of the dinosaur family tree

UserPaul Barrett - Natural History Museum.

House Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

ClockMonday 27 November 2023, 18:00-19:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Visualising fluid mechanics phenomena via quasi-bases

UserCatherine Drysdale, University of Birmingham.

HouseMR2.

ClockFriday 24 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The quiet AI revolution in weather forecasting

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserProfessor Richard Turner, Professor of Machine Learning, Department of Engineering .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 20 November 2023, 18:00-19:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

APS-DFD - no seminar

UserNone.

HouseMR2.

ClockFriday 17 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Culinary fluid mechanics

UserMaciej Lisicki, University of Warsaw.

HouseMR2.

ClockFriday 10 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V Hill LECTURE - Recent controversies in evolutionary theory

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserDr John Welch, Department of Genetics .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 06 November 2023, 18:00-19:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Chaos in confinement: how to make shear-thinning fluids flow thicken

UserSujit Datta, Princeton University .

HouseMR2.

ClockFriday 03 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Reactive melt transport in the mantle

UserLucy Tweed (University of Cambridge).

HouseMR5, CMS.

ClockMonday 30 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Soft elasticity by domain formation in reinforced and magneto-active composites

UserPedro Ponte Castañeda, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics and Graduate Program in Applied Mathematics and Computational Science, University of Pennsylvania,.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR5.

ClockFriday 27 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Maths versus pandemics: the COVID-19 story

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

User Professor of Mathematical Biology, at DAMTP, Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, and the David N. Moore Fellow in mathematics at Queens’ College Cambridge. .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 23 October 2023, 18:00-19:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Stuck in the mud? Channelling, clogging and burrowing in plastic fluids

UserDuncan R Hewitt, University of Cambridge.

HouseMR2.

ClockFriday 20 October 2023, 16:00-17:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Layering Processes in Double Diffusive Convection

UserPaul Pruzina, University of Cambridge.

HouseMR5, CMS.

ClockMonday 16 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

It’s sink or skim: when solid bodies meet liquid layers

UserRyan Palmer, University of Bristol.

HouseMR2.

ClockFriday 13 October 2023, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE From superconductors to giant planets: a computational window on materials

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserProfessor Chris Pickard, Sir Alan Cottrell Professor of Materials Science, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 09 October 2023, 18:00-19:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Spreading of yield-stress fluids

UserJean-François Joanny, Curie Institute.

HouseMR2.

ClockFriday 06 October 2023, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Frictional fluid dynamics and viscously stable pattern formation

UserBjornar Sandnes, Swansea University.

HouseMR2.

ClockFriday 16 June 2023, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Physics-aware data-driven approaches for time prediction

UserLuca Magri, Imperial College London.

HouseMR2.

ClockFriday 09 June 2023, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

The fluid dynamics of disease transmission: bubbles, droplets, and microorganisms (GK Batchelor Lecture)

UserLydia Bourouiba, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

HouseMR2.

ClockFriday 26 May 2023, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Changing reference frame: insights from unsteady fragmentation

UserLydia Bourouiba, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

HouseMR5.

ClockTuesday 23 May 2023, 11:30-12:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

2nd year PhD student talks - speakers listed below

UserDAMTP PhD students.

HouseMR2.

ClockFriday 19 May 2023, 15:00-17:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Can Enzymes Help Address the Climate Crisis?

UserSam Cobb ( Research Fellow, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Reisner Lab).

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 18 May 2023, 12:00-13:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Active matter in inhomogeneous environments

UserGwynn Elfring, University of British Columbia.

HouseMR2 (also broadcast as JFM webinar).

ClockFriday 05 May 2023, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Bogie Damage: Train or Track?

UserDr Stuart Grassie, Railmeasurement Ltd.

HouseJDB Seminar Room, CUED.

ClockFriday 28 April 2023, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

New perspectives on ocean interior turbulent mixing

UserAli Mashayek, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

HouseMR2.

ClockFriday 28 April 2023, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Our Quantum World: How Quantum Technologies will Shape the Future - One Day Meeting

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserOrganisers: Professor Adrian Kent, Dr Boris Groisman, Dr Sergii Strelchuk and Professor Ron Horgan.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department. Constance Tipper Lecture Theatre.

ClockSaturday 18 March 2023, 10:15-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Nanowires: Small but mighty building blocks for efficient electronics

Please note change to start time of 18.00. Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserProfessor Hannah Joyce, Department of Engineering.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 13 March 2023, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Honorary Fellows Lecture - Cosmic extinction - the far future of our Universe

Please note change to start time of 18.00. Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserProfessor Carlos Frenk, Ogden Professor of Fundamental Physics, Durham.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 08 March 2023, 18:00-19:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Acoustics by the sea with BBC Coast

UserProfessor David Sharp, The Open University.

HouseJDB Seminar Room, CUED.

ClockFriday 03 March 2023, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Mitigating mitochondrial mutational meltdown: can we save the species?

Please note change to start time of 18.00. Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserProfessor Patrick Chinnery, Department of Clinical Neurosciences .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 27 February 2023, 18:00-19:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Hydrodynamic Black Holes

UserSilke Weinfurtner, U. Nottingham.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 24 February 2023, 16:00-17:00

Sedgwick Club talks

A Career in Hydrogeology

UserVictoria Price, Hydrogeologist at Mott MacDonald.

HouseTilley Lecture Theater, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockMonday 20 February 2023, 18:00-19:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Viscoplastic model of mountain building

UserElvinas Ribinskas, DAMTP.

HouseMR5, CMS.

ClockMonday 20 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Modeling of Fibrous Tissues Considering the Microstructure

UserProf Gerhard A. Holzapfel, Graz University of Technology, Institute of Biomechanics, Austria.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR4.

ClockFriday 17 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Leveraging vibrations, nonlinear dynamics, and wave phenomena in emerging fields and across disciplines

UserProf Alper Erturk, Carl Ring Family Chair & Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology .

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR6.

ClockThursday 16 February 2023, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Building your life-support system; a new paradigm for human placental development

Please note change to start time of 18.00. Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserProfessor Graham Burton, Department of Physiology Development & Neuroscience .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 13 February 2023, 18:00-19:00

Sedgwick Club talks

When did humans start to influence rivers? A contribution to the Anthropocene debate

UserProfessor Martin Gibling, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Dalhousie University.

HouseTilley Lecture Theater, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockMonday 13 February 2023, 18:00-19:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Complexity in Vibrations and Dynamics – Phenomena and Methods

UserProfessor Norbert Hoffmann, Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH).

HouseJDB Seminar Room, CUED.

ClockFriday 10 February 2023, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Phononics: Structural dynamics of materials and implications to fluid dynamics, heat transfer, and beyond

UserProf Mahmoud I. Hussein, Alvah and Harriet Hovlid Professor of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR4.

ClockFriday 03 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I TAYLOR LECTURE – Some wrinkles in Gauss’ Theorem: Mathematics of everyday objects from Pizza to Umbrellas and Parachutes

Please note change to start time of 18.00. Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserProfessor Dominic Vella, Department of Mathematics, Oxford.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 30 January 2023, 18:00-19:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Why is the clarinet like a violin?

UserEmeritus Professor Jim Woodhouse, CUED.

HouseJDB Seminar Room, CUED.

ClockFriday 27 January 2023, 16:00-17:00

Sedgwick Club talks

Mapping college geology; history of building stone use in Cambridge

UserDr Nigel Woodcock, Earth Sciences Department of the University of Cambridge.

HouseTilley Lecture Theater, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockMonday 23 January 2023, 18:00-19:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Filling in the Map: Understanding Arctic Ocean mixing rates, mechanisms and space-time geography from ocean observations

UserStephanie Waterman, Department of Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences, University of British Columbia.

HouseMR5, CMS.

ClockMonday 23 January 2023, 13:00-14:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Bigger Picture Talk with Prof. Alvaro Mata

UserAlvaro Mata, Professor in Biomedical Engineering and Biomaterials, University of Nottingham.

HouseDepartment of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, West Cambridge Site.

ClockWednesday 18 January 2023, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Background and uses of guided ultrasonics

UserDr David Alleyne, CEO, Guided Ultrasonics Ltd.

HouseJDB Seminar Room, CUED.

ClockFriday 02 December 2022, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Lecture - Eureka! How the history of science became a story of discovery

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserProfessor Jim Secord, Department of History & Philosophy of Science.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 21 November 2022, 18:30-19:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

The precessing vortex core instability in swirled jets

UserSantosh Hemchandra, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 11 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V HILL Lecture – The Protected Brain: Neurogenesis Under Stress

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserProfessor Alex Gould, Francis Crick Institute, Imperial College, London.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 07 November 2022, 18:30-19:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Cambridge Darwins in Conversation

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserPaula Darwin, Professor Roger Keynes and Dr Claire Barlow.

HouseMurray Edwards College, Buckingham House Conference Centre.

ClockMonday 31 October 2022, 18:00-19:30

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Towards machine learning in operational weather forecasting

UserMatthew Chantry, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts.

HouseMR5, CMS.

ClockMonday 31 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Banks, Bunkers, and Backup: Securing Crop Diversity from the Cold War through the Internet Age

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserProfessor Helen Anne Curry, Kranzberg Professor of the History of Technology, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 24 October 2022, 18:30-19:30

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Optimizing scalar transport using branching flows

UserAnuj Kumar, University of California Santa Cruz.

HouseMR5, CMS.

ClockMonday 24 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

Sedgwick Club talks

The Origin of the Ornithischian Bauplan

UserProfessor David Norman, University of Cambridge Department of Earth Sciences.

HouseTilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockMonday 17 October 2022, 18:00-19:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Engineering with Droplets

UserPallav Kant (Department of Earth Science).

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 13 October 2022, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Larmor Lecture - The Milky Way Galaxy - from beginning to end

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserProfessor Gerry Gilmore, Institute of Astronomy.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 10 October 2022, 18:30-19:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

CVDC Truck Demo

UserDr Francesco Amoruso, CUED.

HouseJDB Seminar Room, CUED.

ClockFriday 17 June 2022, 15:30-17:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Poster Session

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseJDB Seminar Room, CUED.

ClockFriday 10 June 2022, 16:00-17:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

See Below

UserPaddy Mortimer, BPI and Holly Smith, BPI.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 09 June 2022, 11:30-12:30

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Multiscale vortex structure in the regime of incipient hurricanes

UserRupert Klein, Mathematik and Informatik, Freie Universität Berlin .

HouseSeminar Room 2 Isaac Newton Institute.

ClockMonday 06 June 2022, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

2nd year PhD student talks

UserJames Cummins, Tom Daggitt, William Oxley, Alistair Hales, Jenny Dingwall, Matt Davison, Elvinas Ribinskas, James Mason, Joseph Webber.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 27 May 2022, 14:45-17:01

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

AI for Polar Route and Mission Planning

UserMaria Fox, Artificial Intelligence Lab, British Antarctic Survey.

HouseMR 4, CMS.

ClockMonday 23 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Interactions between barchan dunes

UserWillian Righi Assis, University of Campinas (UNICAMP). School of Mechanical Engineering.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 12 May 2022, 11:30-12:30

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Response of terrestrial aridity to global warming

UserQiang Fu, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington.

HouseMR 4, CMS.

ClockMonday 09 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Some like it hot, but not icebergs

UserClaudia Cenedese, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

HouseFluid Mechanics Webinar Series.

ClockFriday 06 May 2022, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I Taylor Lecture - Life in Moving Fluids

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserProfessor Eric Lauga, Professor of Applied Mathematics, DAMTP.

HouseBabbage Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 28 March 2022, 18:30-19:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Our Quantum World: How Quantum Tehnologies Will Shape the Future - One day meeting

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserOrganised by: Professor Adrian Kent, Dr Boris Groisman, Dr Sergii Strelchuk and Professor Ron Horgan.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department. Constance Tipper Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 18 March 2022, 09:00-17:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Light-rechargeable Batteries: A New tool to Fight Climate Change?

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserProfessor Michael de Volder, Professor of Advanced Materials Engineering, Institute for Manufacturing .

HouseBabbage Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 14 March 2022, 18:30-19:30

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

The impact of realistic topographic representation on the parameterisation of lee wave energy flux

UserLois Baker, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College London.

HouseMR5, CMS.

ClockMonday 14 March 2022, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Unsteadiness of Shock Wave / Turbulent Boundary Layer Interactions

UserNoel Clemens, University of Texas at Austin.

HouseFluid Mechanics Webinar Series.

ClockFriday 04 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Imaging cancer metabolism - Out of the lab and into the clinic

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org or https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lecture-professor-kevin-brindle-tickets-260329090317

UserProfessor Kevin Brindle FMedSci FRS, Professor of Biomedical Magnetic Resonance, Department of Biochemistry and Cancer Research UK, Cambridge Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre.

HouseBabbage Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 28 February 2022, 18:30-19:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Postdoc talks

UserC. Kamal, E. Kruger, F. Paolo Conto, J. Chui - DAMTP.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 25 February 2022, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Honorary Fellows Lecture - Using electron microscopy to understand the molecules of life

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org or https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/honorary-fellows-lecture-professor-richard-henderson-tickets-260346963777

UserProfessor Richard Henderson CH FRS FMedSci HonFRSC, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 23 February 2022, 18:30-19:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Should we Automate?

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org or go to https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lecture-professor-duncan-mcfarlane-tickets-250023506037

UserProfessor Duncan McFarlane, Professor of Industrial Information Engineering and Head, Distributed Informaiion and Automation Laboratory, Department of Engineering.

HouseBabbage Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 14 February 2022, 18:30-19:30

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Bigger Picture Talks at CEB with Professor Lynn Loo - Getting to net-zero: decarbonising at the exajoule and joule levels

UserProfessor Lynn Loo, Princeton University and Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation.

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 09 February 2022, 11:00-12:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Engineering interfacial flows and instabilities in solidifying liquids

UserPierre-Thomas Brun, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University.

HouseFluid Mechanics Webinar Series.

ClockFriday 04 February 2022, 16:00-17:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Structural Bio in the 21st Century

UserSir Prof. Richard Henderson FRS | 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockTuesday 01 February 2022, 18:00-19:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Postdoc talks

UserL. Fung, M. Couchman, J. Peterson, Z. Guo - DAMTP.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 28 January 2022, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Prediction of drag for rough wall boundary layer flows

UserKaren Flack, US Naval Academy.

HouseFluid Mechanics Webinar Series.

ClockFriday 03 December 2021, 16:00-17:00

Sedgwick Club talks

How Do Rocks React to Outbursts from the Sun?

UserDr Juliane Huebert, British Geological Survey.

HouseTilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockMonday 29 November 2021, 18:00-19:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Process Engineering seminar: Solar to Chemical Energy Conversion, Professor Joel Ager

UserProfessor Joel Ager, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory & UC Berkeley.

HouseMicrosoft Teams .

ClockMonday 29 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Reflections on the Geodynamo

UserPeter Davidson, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 26 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Biology of Eating

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org or go to https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lecture-by-professor-sadaf-farooqi-tickets-188170812967

UserProfessor Sadaf Farooqi, Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow and Professor of Metabolism and Medicine, Wellcome-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, Department of Medicine.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 22 November 2021, 18:30-19:30

Sedgwick Club talks

Mud Forensics - Assessing Geological Risks

UserProfessor Andy Cundy, University of Southampton.

HouseTilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockMonday 22 November 2021, 18:00-19:00

Sedgwick Club talks

Winchcombe: The First UK Meteorite in 30 Years

UserDr Natasha Stephen, Plymouth Electron Microscopy Centre.

HouseTilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockMonday 15 November 2021, 18:00-19:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Stethoscope Acoustics

UserMax Nussbaumer, Acoustics Group.

HouseJDB Seminar Room, CUED.

ClockFriday 12 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Six Features of Sand Dunes

UserNathalie Vriend (University of Cambridge).

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 11 November 2021, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Urban tunneling - the challenges of creating underground space in historic cities

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org or go to https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lecture-professor-giulia-viggiani-infrastructure-geotechnics-tickets-188169037657

UserProfessor Giulia Viggiani, Professor of Infrastructure Geotechnics, Department of Engineering.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 08 November 2021, 18:30-19:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Honorary Fellows Lecture - Should we trust statistics?

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org or go to https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/honorary-fellows-lecture-professor-sir-david-spiegelhalter-frs-obe-tickets-188164062777

UserProfessor Sir David Spiegelhalter FRS OBE Chair, Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 03 November 2021, 18:30-19:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Fluid-mechanical models of ice-sheet sliding and dynamics

UserIan Hewitt, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 29 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V Hill Lecture - The Rewarded Brain

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org or go to https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-v-hill-lecture-professor-wolfram-schultz-tickets-181588946427

UserProfessor Wolfram Schultz Professor of Neuroscience Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 25 October 2021, 18:30-19:30

Sedgwick Club talks

Geophysics in Antarctica

UserDr Alex Brisbourne, British Antarctic Survey.

HouseTilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockMonday 25 October 2021, 18:00-19:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Active and Partially-Supervised Learning

UserDr Nikolaos Dervilis, Sheffield University.

HouseJDB Seminar Room, CUED.

ClockFriday 22 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Are confluent cell layers extensile or contractile?

UserJulia Yeomans, Department of Physics, University of Oxford.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 22 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Brake-actuated Axle Steering

UserFrancesco Amoruso, Vehicles Group.

HouseJDB Seminar Room, CUED.

ClockFriday 15 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Larmor Lecture - Covid, Chaos and Climate: How mathematical models help to explain the universe

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org or go to https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/larmor-lecture-professor-chris-budd-tickets-177983973857

UserProfessor Chris Budd OBE, FIMA, C Math, NTF Dept. of Mathematical Sciences University of Bath .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 11 October 2021, 18:30-19:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

An introduction to the DVRG

UserProfessor Robin Langley, CUED.

HouseJDB Seminar Room, CUED.

ClockFriday 08 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Topological Origin of Certain Fluid and Plasma Waves

UserBrad Marston, Brown University, USA.

HouseFluid Mechanics Webinar Series.

ClockFriday 01 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Concluding remarks and some open problems

UserKeith Moffatt, Cambridge University, UK.

HouseGKB100 Fluid Mechanics Webinar Series via Zoom.

ClockFriday 18 June 2021, 16:30-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Freezing a rivulet

UserAxel Huerre, Laboratoire Matière et Systèmes Complexes (MSC), Université de Paris.

HouseGKB100 Fluid Mechanics Webinar Series via Zoom.

ClockFriday 11 June 2021, 16:30-17:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Ocean Plastics

UserErick van-Sebille, Utrecht University, Netherlands.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 27 May 2021, 11:30-12:30

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

On Tornado Dynamics

UserProfessor Bruce Sutherland, University of Alberta, Canada.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 13 May 2021, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I Taylor Lecture - title to be confirmed

YouTube upload date to follow soon

UserDr Debora Sijacki, Institute of Astronomy.

HouseYouTube link to be confirmed.

ClockFriday 26 March 2021, 00:00-00:01

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Phylogenetic network analysis of SARS-CoV-2 genomes - tracing the origins of the epidemic

YouTube upload date to follow soon

UserDr Peter Forster, (Cambridge).

HouseYouTube link to be confirmed.

ClockFriday 26 March 2021, 00:00-00:01

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LECTURE - title to be confirmed

YouTube upload date to follow soon

UserDr Daniel Munoz-Espin, Group Leader in Cancer Early Detection, Department of Oncology.

HouseYouTube link to be confirmed.

ClockFriday 26 March 2021, 00:00-00:01

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Universal Darwinism: A Health Check at Forty

YouTube upload date to follow soon

UserProfessor Tim Lewens, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

HouseYouTube link to be confirmed.

ClockWednesday 24 March 2021, 00:00-00:01

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Mass spectrometry: From ribosomes to receptors

UserProfessor Dame Carol Robinson DBE FRS FMedSci.

HouseGoogle Meets.

ClockTuesday 16 March 2021, 18:00-19:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The art of conversation

UserProfessor Antje S. Meyer.

HouseGoogle Meets.

ClockFriday 12 March 2021, 18:00-19:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Cancer evolution, immune evasion and metastasis

UserProfessor Charles Swanton FRCP FMedSci FAACR FRS.

HouseGoogle Meets.

ClockTuesday 09 March 2021, 18:00-19:30

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Machine Learning in Structural Dynamics

email hh463@cam.ac.uk for passcode

UserProf Keith Worden, Sheffield University.

HouseZoom Meeting ID: 819 1682 8857.

ClockFriday 05 March 2021, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Larmor Lecture - Climate change and cascading risks

YouTube Lecture available online now

UserProfessor Tim Benton Research Director – Emerging Risks, and Director – Energy, Environment and Resources Programme Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House.

Househttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SW7XLjb1S08.

ClockTuesday 02 March 2021, 00:00-00:01

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V Hill Lecture - Kings and Queens of the Mountain: Studies of Extreme Physiology in Himalayan Sherpas

YouTube Lecture available online now

UserDr Andrew Murray, Metabolic Physiology, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

Househttps://youtu.be/keEFh3za-Eo.

ClockTuesday 02 March 2021, 00:00-00:01

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Lecture - Modern Molecular Science and How is it Changing our Life - Dr Ljiljana Fruk

YouTube Lecture available online now

UserDr Ljiljana Fruk, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology.

HouseYoutube https://youtu.be/e_AZzwsLbfw.

ClockTuesday 02 March 2021, 00:00-00:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Learning based multi-scale modeling

email hh463@cam.ac.uk for passcode

UserProf Kaushik Bhattacharya, California Institute of Technology.

HouseZoom Meeting ID: 819 1682 8857.

ClockFriday 26 February 2021, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Model-Free Data-Driven Science: Cutting out the Middleman

email hh463@cam.ac.uk for passcode

UserProf Michael Ortiz, California Institute of Technology .

HouseZoom Meeting ID: 819 1682 8857.

ClockFriday 19 February 2021, 16:00-17:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

PechaKucha - SciSoc Edition!

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseGoogle Meets.

ClockSaturday 13 February 2021, 19:00-22:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Remembering Professor David Newland

We would like to dedicate this week to remember David, and share past stories and experiences we had with him.

UserGroup .

HouseOnline - Teams. Please email div-c@eng.cam.ac.uk for the link.

ClockFriday 29 January 2021, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

ONLINE LECTURE - title to be confirmed

ONLINE LECTURE - YOUTUBE UPLOAD DATE TO FOLLOW SOON

UserProfessor Tim Lewens, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

HouseYou tube link to be confirmed.

ClockThursday 28 January 2021, 00:00-00:01

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Ripples from the dark side of the universe

UserProfessor Sir James Hough OBE FRS FRSE FInstP (Hon), University of Glasgow.

HouseGoogle Meets.

ClockTuesday 26 January 2021, 18:00-19:30

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

BP Sustainability Lecture 2021

UserProfessor Emily Allyn Weiss - Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Director, Photo-Sciences Research Center (PSRC) Northwestern University .

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 14 January 2021, 14:15-15:15

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Tips and Tricks for Inventing the Future

Last talk of term

UserMr David A. Homfray CEng CPhys FInstP FRAS FBIS, Former Head of Engineering Realisation Group at the UK Atomic Energy Authority/Culham Centre for Fusion Energy .

HouseGoogle Meets.

ClockTuesday 01 December 2020, 18:00-19:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Misinformation in the Digital Age: A Panel

Please note this panel is on a Monday.

UserProfessor Stephan Lewandowsky, Dr Jon Roozenbeek, Professor Sander van der Linden.

HouseGoogle Meets.

ClockMonday 30 November 2020, 19:30-21:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Limitations of the Miles-Howard criterion

UserJeremy Parker, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

HouseZoom webinar - link to follow.

ClockMonday 30 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Can genomics improve health in Africa? Experience from sickle cell disease in Tanzania

UserProfessor Julie Makani Associate Professor, Department of Haematology and Blood Transfusion, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences.

HouseGoogle Meets.

ClockTuesday 24 November 2020, 18:00-19:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

On the interactions between our industrial system and the natural system

UserProfessor Steve Evans, Director of Research, Centre for Industrial Sustainability, Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge.

HouseGoogle Meets.

ClockTuesday 17 November 2020, 18:00-19:30

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Double-Diffusive Convection in the Arctic Ocean

UserNicole Shibley, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Yale University.

HouseZoom webinar - link to follow.

ClockMonday 16 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Human Cell Atlas: Mapping the human body one cell at a time

UserDr Sarah Teichmann FRS FMedSci, Wellcome Sanger Institute.

HouseGoogle Meets.

ClockTuesday 10 November 2020, 18:00-19:30

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Jet Regimes and the Predictability of Euro-Atlantic Weather

UserKristian Strommen, Department of Physics, University of Oxford.

HouseZoom webinar - link to follow.

ClockMonday 09 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

See Below

UserPatrick Mortimer, BPI and Eric Newland, BPI.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 05 November 2020, 11:30-12:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

DNA: Inspiring building blocks that made me a learner in perpetuity

UserDr Serena Nik-Zainal, MRC Cancer Unit, University of Cambridge.

HouseGoogle Meets.

ClockTuesday 03 November 2020, 18:00-19:30

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

TBC

UserKieran Gilmore, BPI and Sandy Armstrong, BPI.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 29 October 2020, 11:30-12:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

New Materials for a New Age

Note that this talk is on a Wednesday

UserProfessor Nicola Spaldin FRS, Chair, Materials Theory, ETH Zurich.

HouseGoogle Meets.

ClockWednesday 28 October 2020, 18:00-19:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Combustion Transition: tackling climate change at its source

In collaboration with CUSPE and CUSISS

UserMr Simon Spooner, ATKINS Infrastructure. Principal Scientist, UK Water Management. Technical Director, China Infrastructure. Honorary Professor, Nottingham University UK and Ningbo, China..

HouseGoogle Meets.

ClockTuesday 27 October 2020, 18:00-19:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Why is sleep good for you?

UserProfessor William Wisden FMedSci, Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London.

HouseGoogle Meets.

ClockTuesday 20 October 2020, 18:00-19:30

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

The ocean’s transient conveyor belt

UserShantong Sun, Environmental Science and Engineering, Caltech.

Housezoom webinar - email jn271@cam.ac.uk for link.

ClockMonday 19 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Ice cores and interglacials

UserProfessor Eric Wolff FRS, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

HouseGoogle Meets.

ClockTuesday 13 October 2020, 18:00-19:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Coding and Decoding of Calcium Signals in Plants

UserProfessor Sheng Luan, UC Berkeley .

HouseGoogle Meets.

ClockTuesday 29 September 2020, 18:00-20:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Tea Time Talk Poster Session

The poster session will be on-line from 3.30pm. Please email div-c@eng to request the password for joining.

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseOnline (Zoom) - https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81551153300?pwd=T3pWUjN6WjREcjVmeFk1VUJaRVR2QT09 Meeting ID: 815 5115 3300.

ClockFriday 05 June 2020, 15:30-17:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Acoustics of the banjo

On-line tea from 3.30pm with talk starting at 4.00pm. Please email div-c@eng to request the password for joining.

UserEmeritus Professor Jim Woodhouse, CUED.

HouseOnline (Zoom) - https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81551153300?pwd=T3pWUjN6WjREcjVmeFk1VUJaRVR2QT09 Meeting ID: 815 5115 3300.

ClockFriday 29 May 2020, 16:00-17:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Modelling Dispersal of Aerosols in Buildings

UserAndy Woods - BP Professor ( BP Institute for Multiphase Flow, University of Cambridge).

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 28 May 2020, 11:30-12:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Studies in Natural Product Synthesis

UserProfessor Phil Baran, Scripps Research.

HouseGoogle Meets.

ClockTuesday 26 May 2020, 15:00-16:30

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Making rubber gloves

UserAlexander F. Routh CEB and BP Institute ( BP Institute and Bob Groves, BP Institute visitor).

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 30 April 2020, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Meeting Cancelled - Science and the Futures of Medicine - One Day meeting

Meeting has been cancelled

UserOrganisers: Professor Ashok Venkitaraman and Dr James Fraser.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department LT0.

ClockFriday 20 March 2020, 09:00-17:15

Sedgwick Club talks

Lost Meteorites of Antarctica

Sedgwick Club Conference 2020

UserDr Jane MacArthur, Manchester.

HouseTilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

ClockFriday 13 March 2020, 17:20-18:00

Sedgwick Club talks

The evolution of sea floor ecology in the Cenozoic of Antarctica

Sedgwick Club Conference 2020

UserDr Rowan Whittle - British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge.

HouseTilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

ClockFriday 13 March 2020, 16:25-17:00

Sedgwick Club talks

How does the Earth recover from extreme climate perturbations?

Sedgwick Club Conference 2020

UserDr Philip Pogge von Strandmann, UCL.

HouseTilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

ClockFriday 13 March 2020, 14:40-15:15

Sedgwick Club talks

Erebus

Sedgwick Club Conference 2020

UserProfessor Clive Oppenheimer, University of Cambridge.

House Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

ClockFriday 13 March 2020, 14:00-14:35

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

COVID-19: the cause, the disease and the response

Canceled

UserProfessor Geoffrey L Smith FRS. Head, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 12 March 2020, 18:00-19:30

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Cleaning soil layers by impinging liquid jets

UserIan Wilson, Dept of Chemical Engineering (University of Cambridge).

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 12 March 2020, 11:30-12:30

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Dr Ewa Marek - title TBC

UserDr Ewa Marek, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, West Cambridge Site, LT1.

ClockWednesday 11 March 2020, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Electroreception: A “Sixth Sense”

UserProfessor Clare Baker, Professor of Comparative Developmental Neurobiology, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 10 March 2020, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Vibration and Acoustics of Everyday Things

UserDr Anurag Agarawal, Department of Engineering 18.00 - 19.00 .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 09 March 2020, 18:00-19:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Free Surface Nanoflows

UserJames Sprittles, University of Warwick .

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 06 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Natural Justice: Soil Science and Criminal Investigations

UserProfessor Lorna Dawson, CBE, BSC, PhD, FRSE, FRSA, F.I.Soil.Sci., ChSci Head of Forensic Soil Science, The James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen, United Kingdom. AB15 8QH, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK; http://www.hutton.ac.uk/.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 03 March 2020, 18:00-19:30

Sedgwick Club talks

Highs and lows of the South Atlantic

UserDr Lucia Perez Diaz, University of Oxford.

House Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

ClockMonday 02 March 2020, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - What is epigenetics? And is it important?

A COMPLIMENTARY DRINKS RECEPTION TO FOLLOW ON AFTER THE LECTURE WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE FOYER TO THE LECTURE THEATRE FOR ALL ATTENDEES

UserSir David Baulcombe, Royal Society Edward Penley Abraham Research Professor, Department of Plant Sciences 18.00 - 19.00 .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 26 February 2020, 18:00-19:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Like the Back of Your Hand

UserProfessor Dame Sue Black: President of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Pro Vice-Chancellor for Engagement at Lancaster University.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 25 February 2020, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Simpson's question: How does behaviour determine evolution?

UserProfessor Rebecca Kilner, Department of Zoology 18.00 - 19.00 .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 24 February 2020, 18:00-19:00

Sedgwick Club talks

Rivers in the Rock Record: From Utah to Wales

UserDr Catherine Russell, University of Leicester.

House Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

ClockMonday 24 February 2020, 18:00-19:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

How mixed is the ocean mixed layer?

UserNeeraja Bhamidipati, BP Institute, University of Cambridge.

HouseMR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockMonday 24 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

What Fuels Cancer Killers!

UserProfessor David Finlay: Associate Professor in Immunometabolism, at Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute in Trinity College Dublin.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 18 February 2020, 18:00-19:30

Sedgwick Club talks

GfGD-Sedgwick Talk

UserSanna Markkanen (CISL) and Allie Mitchell (Wardell Armstrong).

House Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

ClockMonday 17 February 2020, 18:00-19:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Models, Uncertainty and Design

UserProfessor Robin Langley, CUED.

HouseJDB Seminar Room, CUED.

ClockFriday 14 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Natural Language Processing for Health

UserDr Nigel Collier: Lecturer in Computational Linguistics, EPSRC Experienced Research Fellow, Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute, Co-Director of the Language Technology Lab.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 11 February 2020, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Modern Molecular Science and How It Is Changing Our Life

UserDr Ljiljana Fruk, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology 18.00-19.00.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 10 February 2020, 18:00-19:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Physics Meets Biology: How Cells Control Their shape and Why It Matters

UserProfessor Ewa Paluch: Professor of Anatomy, Chair of Anatomy at the University of Cambridge.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 04 February 2020, 18:00-19:30

Sedgwick Club talks

Geology, resources and sovereignty: the ongoing effort to map Arctic Canada

UserProfessor Marc St-Onge, Geological Survey of Canada and University of Oxford.

House Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

ClockMonday 03 February 2020, 18:00-19:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

SPECIAL SEMINAR - PLEASE SEE TIME AND LOCATION CHANGE

UserProf Stephen Belcher, Chief Scientist, Meteorological Office .

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, meeting room MR2.

ClockThursday 30 January 2020, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - The Silent Flight of the Owl

UserProfessor Nigel Peake, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics 18.00 - 19.00.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 27 January 2020, 18:00-19:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Freezing impacts

UserChristophe Josserand, Ecole Polytechnique.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 17 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Coffee Stains, Cell Receptors and Time Crystals: Lessons from the Old Literature

UserProfessor Ray Goldstein, Schlumberger Professor of Complex Physical Systems, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 03 December 2019, 18:00-19:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Mathematics vs Dementia

UserProfessor Alain Goriely, Professor of Mathematical Modelling, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 26 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

An evening with Lynn Rothschild

UserProfessor Lynn Rothschild, NASA Ames Research Centre, Stanford University, Brown University.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 20 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Is Obesity a Choice?

UserDr Giles Yeo, MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit, University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Labs, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 19 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Three-dimensional instability dynamics in jets

UserLutz Lesshafft, Laboratoire d’Hydrodynamique, École polytechnique.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 15 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Communicating Risk and Uncertainty

UserProfessor Sir David Spieghalter, Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk, Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 12 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

How to Hunt a Submarine

UserProfessor Tom Kӧrner, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics. 18.00 to 19.00.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 11 November 2019, 18:00-19:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Hydrological networks and flow of the Greenland ice sheets

UserDr Poul Christoffersen, Scott Polar Institute (University of Cambridge).

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 07 November 2019, 11:30-12:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Stem Cell Ageing: Reversing the Ravages of Time

UserProfessor Robin Franklin, Professor of Stem Cell Medicine, Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 05 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Motion of vortices with buoyancy

UserStefan Llewellyn Smith, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UCSD.

HouseMR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockMonday 04 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Neurophysics and Neuroengineering of space, time and imagination

UserProfessor Mayank R. Mehta, Departments of: Physics & Astronomy; Neurology; Neurobiology Brain Research Institute, ULCA. W.M. Keck Centre for Neurophysics, UCLA.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 01 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Consider the Icicle

UserStephen Morris, University of Toronto .

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 01 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

10 Years of HPV Vaccines - The Global Experience

UserProfessor Dame Margaret Stanley, Emeritus Professor of Epithelial Biology, Deparment of Pathology, University of Cambridge.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 29 October 2019, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Cancer: when friends become foes, and how to make them friends again

UserProfessor Gerard Evan FRS FMedSci, Sir William Dunn Professor of Biochemistry, Department of Biochemistry 18.00 - 19.00 .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 28 October 2019, 18:00-19:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Dressed to Kill: What do Infectious Disease Agents Have in their Wardrobes?

UserProfessor Sunetra Gupta, Professor of Theoretical Epidemiology, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 15 October 2019, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE - Design of Tissue Engineering Scaffolds - Still Learning our ABC?

UserProfessor Serena Best, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy. 18.00 - 19.00.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 14 October 2019, 18:00-19:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

An Introduction to the DVRG

UserProfessor Robin Langley, CUED.

HouseJDB Seminar Room, CUED.

ClockFriday 11 October 2019, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Poster session

UserProgramme to be confirmed.

HouseJDB Seminar Room, CUED.

ClockFriday 07 June 2019, 15:30-17:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

The RemoveDEBRIS space mission

UserGuglielmo Aglietti, University of Surrey.

HouseJDB Seminar Room, CUED.

ClockFriday 31 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Atomistically inspired origami

Tea and coffee will be available in LR5 after the seminar

UserProf Richard D. James, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minnesota.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR6.

ClockFriday 31 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Self-similarly expanding regions of phase change yield cavitational instabilities and model deep earthquakes

Tea and coffee will be available in the foyer after the seminar

UserProf Xanthippi Markenscoff, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR4.

ClockFriday 03 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

200TH ANNIVERSARY TWO-DAY MEETING - The Futures of Sciences

200TH ANNIVERSARY TWO DAY MEETING FREE ENTRY - OPEN TO ALL - NO BOOKING REQUIRED

UserOrganiser Professor Simon Conway Morris.

HouseLecture Room 0, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1PZ.

ClockFriday 22 March 2019, 09:00-17:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

200TH ANNIVERSARY TWO-DAY MEETING - The Futures of Sciences

200TH ANNIVERSARY TWO DAY MEETING - FREE ENTRY - OPEN TO ALL - NO BOOKING REQUIRED

UserOrganiser Professor Simon Conway Morris.

HouseLecture Room 0, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1PZ.

ClockThursday 21 March 2019, 13:15-17:15

Sedgwick Club talks

Sink or Stall: Subduction Transition Zone Dynamics

Sedgwick Club Conference 2019

UserDr Saskia Goes - Imperial College London.

HouseTilley Lecture Theater, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockFriday 15 March 2019, 17:15-17:45

Sedgwick Club talks

Motion in the fossil record: Reconstructing dinosaur limb kinematics from fossil footprints

Sedgwick Club Conference 2019

UserDr Peter Falkingham - Liverpool John Moores University.

HouseTilley Lecture Theater, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockFriday 15 March 2019, 16:45-17:15

Sedgwick Club talks

Building resilience through drone-based strategies for volcano monitoring

Sedgwick Club Conference 2019

UserDr Emma Liu - University of Cambridge.

HouseTilley Lecture Theater, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockFriday 15 March 2019, 15:30-16:00

Sedgwick Club talks

Earthquakes of the Silk Road

Sedgwick Club Conference 2019

UserDr Richard Walker - University of Oxford.

HouseTilley Lecture Theater, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockFriday 15 March 2019, 15:00-15:30

Sedgwick Club talks

Ophiolite perspectives on oceanic mantle compositional heterogeneity

Sedgwick Club Conference 2019

UserDr Brian O'Driscoll - University of Manchester.

HouseTilley Lecture Theater, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockFriday 15 March 2019, 13:00-13:30

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Non-conventional polymer composite materials: expanding the design envelope of aerospace structures

Tea and coffee will be available in LR5 after the seminar

UserDr Pedro Camanho, Departamento de Engenharia Mecânica, University of Porto.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR6.

ClockFriday 01 March 2019, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V HILL LECTURE - Cardiac Arrest: From Genes to Mechanisms to Mind

UserA V HILL LECTURE - Professor Pier Lambiase FRCP FHRS, Professor of Cardiology, UCL, London and St Barts London.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 25 February 2019, 18:00-19:00

Sedgwick Club talks

Title to be confirmed

UserDr Camilla Penney - University of Cambridge.

House Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

ClockMonday 25 February 2019, 18:00-19:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Active Cell Mechanics

Tea and coffee & biscuits will be available after the seminar

UserProfessor Ulrich Schwarz, Institute for Theoretical Physics and BioQuant, Heidelberg University, Germany .

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR4.

ClockFriday 08 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - The Fuel of Life

A COMPLIMENTARY DRINKS RECEPTION TO FOLLOW ON AFTER THE LECTURE WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE FOYER TO THE LECTURE THEATRE FOR ALL ATTENDEES

UserProfessor Sir John E Walker FRS FMedSci,Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, Medical Research Council, Mitochondrial Biology Unit .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 06 February 2019, 18:00-19:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

An 'Ashby map' for selecting musical strings

UserProfessor Jim Woodhouse, CUED Emeritus.

HouseJDB Seminar Room, CUED.

ClockFriday 18 January 2019, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Dripping down the rivulet

UserFrançois Gallaire Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale, Lausanne.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 30 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Multiphase Aspects of Ice Sheet Dynamics

UserProfessor Ian Hewitt, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 29 November 2018, 11:30-12:30

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Optimal design of catalytic reactors and structured catalysts

UserProfessor Prof Hanssjörg Freund, CRT Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.

HouseDepartment of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, West Cambridge Site, LT2.

ClockWednesday 28 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Turbulent leakage in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation

UserLaura Cimoli, Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics, University of Oxford.

HouseMR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockMonday 26 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The combinatorics of spaghetti hoops

UserProfessor Simon Tavaré FRS FMedSci, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics and Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 19 November 2018, 18:00-19:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

On the dynamics of phytoplankton blooms in experiments and the real world

UserAleksandra Lewandowska, Tvärminne Zoological Station, University of Helsinki.

HouseMR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockMonday 12 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Bose Waveguide Technology

UserDr Ole Nielsen, Bose/CUED.

HouseJDB Seminar Room, CUED.

ClockFriday 09 November 2018, 16:00-16:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Lecture has been cancelled - This Antibiotics from Darwin’s chemistry set

This lecture has been cancelled

UserProfessor Peter Leadlay FRS, Emeritus Herchel Smith Professor of Biochemistry, Department of Biochemistry .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 05 November 2018, 18:00-19:00

Sedgwick Club talks

The causes and consequences of the Messinian Salinity Crisis

UserProfessor Rachel Flecker - University of Bristol.

House Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

ClockMonday 05 November 2018, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Some dynamics of bolted interfaces

UserDr Hugh Goyder, Cranfield University.

HouseJDB Seminar Room, CUED.

ClockFriday 26 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Manipulating light at the nanoscale with plasmonics

UserDr Emilie Ringe Department of Material Science and Metallurgy and Department of Earth Sciences.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 22 October 2018, 18:00-19:00

Sedgwick Club talks

PhD showcase

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

House Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

ClockMonday 22 October 2018, 17:30-18:30

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Internal wave-induced mean flow

UserFelix Beckebanze, Mathematical Institute, Utrecht University.

HouseMR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockMonday 22 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Unstructured Mesh Generation and Its Applications

UserDr Hang Si, Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics, Berlin.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 18 October 2018, 11:30-12:30

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Waves, turbulence and large-scale flows in mixed convective-stably-stratified fluids

Note change of venue (MR4)

UserLouis-Alexandre Couston, British Antarctic Survey.

HouseMR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockMonday 15 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE - Why the Ancient Continents are special: a geological detective story

UserProfessor James Jackson FRS, Professor of Active Tectonics, Department of Earth Sciences .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 08 October 2018, 18:00-19:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

See details

UserEdward Hinton, BP Institute and Neeraja Bhamidipati, BP Institute.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 04 October 2018, 11:30-12:30

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Extreme Environments and Dynamic Morphology: Anticipating and harnessing evolving structure-property relationships

User Jessica Krogstad, Department of Materials Science and Engineering University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 28 June 2018, 11:30-12:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Double-diffusive fingering at low Prandtl number

UserPascale Garaud (University of California, Santa Cruz).

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 25 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Plasma Spray and Plasma Electrolytic Oxidation Coatings

UserProfessor Bill Clyne, Dept of Materials Science & Metallurgy, Uni of Cambridge.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 26 April 2018, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

What we don’t know about the Universe from the very small to the very big : ONE DAY MEETING

ONE DAY MEETING FREE ENTRY NO BOOKING REQUIRED

UserOrganisers Professor Ron Horgan and Dr Matt Wingate.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Site Sidgwick Avenue, CB3 9DA.

ClockFriday 23 March 2018, 09:00-17:15

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Transport and Settling of Sediments in River Plumes

UserBruce Sutherland, Depts. Physics / Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 15 March 2018, 11:30-12:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Improving on Nature: Biotechnology and the Ethics of Animal Enhancement

UserDr Sarah Chan, Usher Institute for Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh.

HousePalmerston Room, Fisher Building, St John's College.

ClockTuesday 13 March 2018, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

New micro-machines, new materials

UserProfessor Mark Warner FRS, Professor of Theoretical Physics, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 12 March 2018, 18:00-19:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

POSTPONED - Acoustics in the 'real world' - POSTPONED

UserAngela Lamcraft, Senior Acoustic Consultant for ACCON.

HouseJDB Seminar Room, CUED.

ClockFriday 02 March 2018, 16:00-17:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Human Brain Development Modelled in a Dish

UserDr Madeline Lancaster, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockTuesday 27 February 2018, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V HILL LECTURE - The cortex and the hand of the primate: a special relationship

UserProfessor Roger Lemon, Sobell Chair of Neurophysiology, Institute of Neurology, University College London.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 26 February 2018, 18:00-19:00

Sedgwick Club talks

The formation of the solar system

UserProf Sara Russell (Natural History Museum).

House Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

ClockMonday 26 February 2018, 17:30-18:30

Sedgwick Club talks

Chronicling Ethiopia’s explosive volcanic past using lake sediments

UserDr Catherine Martin-Jones ( Department of Geography, University of Cambridge).

House Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

ClockMonday 19 February 2018, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

MEMS Particulate Sensors

UserMalar Chellasivalingam.

HouseJDB Seminar Room, CUED.

ClockFriday 16 February 2018, 16:30-17:00

Sedgwick Club talks

Illuminating the origins of complex life: Spatial analysis of Ediacaran ecosystems

UserDr Emily Mitchell (Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge).

House Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

ClockMonday 12 February 2018, 17:30-18:30

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Developing and Selecting Tribological Coatings

UserProfessor Allan Matthews, School of Materials, the University of Manchester, Director BP International Centre for Advanced Materials.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 08 February 2018, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

HONORARY FELLOWS PRIZE LECTURE - Towards a silent aircraft

A COMPLIMENTARY DRINKS RECEPTION TO FOLLOW ON AFTER THE LECTURE WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE FOYER TO THE LECTURE THEATRE FOR ALL ATTENDEES

UserProfessor Dame Ann Dowling OM DBE FRS FREng, President of the Royal Academy of Engineering and Professor of Mechanical Engineering.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 07 February 2018, 18:00-19:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Light, Sleep & Circadian Rhythms-Biology to Therapeutics

UserProfessor Russell Foster, Head of the Department of Ophthalmology, University of Oxford.

HouseWolfson LT, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockThursday 01 February 2018, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Waves in the airways: a carpet of microscopic rowers keeps us alive

UserProfessor Pietro Cicuta, Professor of Biological Physics, Biological and Soft Systems, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 29 January 2018, 18:00-19:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

It's Not All About The Science

UserDr Anna Barnes, Institute of Nuclear Medicine, University College London.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockTuesday 23 January 2018, 20:00-21:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Snaking, dripping, and fluttering of elastic rods

UserProfessor Davide Bigoni,Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering University of Trento, Italy.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR4.

ClockFriday 08 December 2017, 14:00-15:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Swimming in a turbulent world

UserMimi Koehl (University of California, Berkeley).

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 01 December 2017, 16:00-17:00

Sedgwick Club talks

Predation In The Cambrian

UserStephen Pates (University of Oxford).

House Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

ClockMonday 27 November 2017, 17:30-18:30

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Towards Durable Hydrophobicity and Omniphobicity

UserNenad Miljkovic, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaing (UIUC).

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 23 November 2017, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Strategic brain routes for learning and plasticity

UserProfessor Zoe Kourtzi, Professor of Experimental Psychology, Department of Psychology.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 20 November 2017, 18:00-19:00

Sedgwick Club talks

National Geographic Explorers

UserDr Claire McNulty (National Geographic Society).

House Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

ClockMonday 20 November 2017, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Some issues in mechanics for the design of helmets

UserProfessor Michael Thouless, University of Michigan.

HouseJDB Seminar Room, CUED.

ClockFriday 17 November 2017, 16:30-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Three phases of genome sequencing and their consequences for science and medicine

UserProfessor Richard Durbin FRS, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge and Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 06 November 2017, 18:00-19:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

3D printing of gears

UserJames McBride, CUED.

HouseJDB Seminar Room, CUED.

ClockFriday 27 October 2017, 16:30-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

On dangerous ground: understanding earthquake induced soil liquefaction

UserProfessor Gopal Madabhushi, Geotechnical and Environmental Research Group, Department of Engineering.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 23 October 2017, 18:00-19:00

Sedgwick Club talks

Redrawing the Dinosaur family tree

UserMatt Baron (University of Cambridge).

House Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

ClockMonday 23 October 2017, 17:30-18:30

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Technical challenges in the upstream oil industry

UserDr Fereidoun Abbassian, BP Wells, Production and Facilities.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockTuesday 17 October 2017, 12:00-13:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Active control of automotive road noise

UserLuis Andrade Acosta and Matt de Brett, CUED.

HouseJDB Seminar Room, CUED.

ClockFriday 13 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE - Exoplanets, on the hunt of Universal life

UserProfessor Didier Queloz, Battcock Centre for Experimental Astrophysics, Cavendish Laboratory .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 09 October 2017, 18:00-19:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Engineered growth factor microenvironments for regenerative medicine

UserProf Manuel Salmeron-Sanchez, Chair of Biomedical Engineering, Glasgow University.

HouseOatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 16 June 2017, 14:00-15:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Woolly Owl (Oxford/Cambridge)

User18th Oxford/Cambridge Applied Mathematics Meeting.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 16 June 2017, 11:00-17:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Statistical Mechanics of Self-Propelled Colloids: Phase Separation and Directed Assembly

UserProf. Michael Cates FRS, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, DAMTP, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, West Cambridge Site, LT2.

ClockWednesday 24 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Measuring Ocean Mixing

UserGreg Ivey, UWA Oceans Institute, University of Western Australia.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 11 May 2017, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

New Frontiers in Robotics - ONE DAY MEETING

ONE DAY MEETING FREE ENTRY NO BOOKING REQUIRED

UserOrganisers: Fumiya Iida and Jim Woodhouse.

HouseLecture Theatre 0, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 24 March 2017, 09:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Do iceberges melt like glaciers?

UserClaudia Cenedese (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution).

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 20 March 2017, 11:50-12:30

Sedgwick Club talks

Planetary geology and the long-term scientific benefits of space resources

Part of Sedgwick Club Conference 2017

UserIan Crawford, UCL Birkbeck.

HouseDepartment of Earth Sciences, Tilley Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 17 March 2017, 16:15-16:45

Sedgwick Club talks

Indirect signatures of life in the alluvial stratigraphic record

Part of Sedgwick Club Conference 2017

UserNeil Davies, Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Earth Sciences, Tilley Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 17 March 2017, 15:15-15:45

Sedgwick Club talks

How to weigh a dinosaur

Part of Sedgwick Club Conference 2017

UserSusie Maidment, Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Earth Sciences, Tilley Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 17 March 2017, 14:45-15:15

Sedgwick Club talks

A lot of hot air: gas in volcanic eruptions

Part of Sedgwick Club Conference 2017

UserMarie Edmonds, Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Earth Sciences, Tilley Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 17 March 2017, 14:00-14:30

Sedgwick Club talks

Cosmic Dust: The fastest little rocks on Earth

Part of Sedgwick Club Conference 2017

UserMatt Genge, Imperial.

HouseDepartment of Earth Sciences.

ClockFriday 17 March 2017, 11:30-12:00

Sedgwick Club talks

Sedgwick Club Conference 2017

Registration required at conf.sedg.club

UserSpeakers from Cambridge and beyond....

HouseDepartment of Earth Sciences.

ClockFriday 17 March 2017, 10:30-18:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Internal BPI Student Seminars

UserEd Hinton, Neerjana Bhamidipati and Thomasina Ball.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 16 March 2017, 11:30-12:30

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

A short history of the microscope

UserProfessor Clemens Kaminski, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology.

HouseDepartment of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, West Cambridge Site, LT2.

ClockWednesday 15 March 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Environmental diversity of Architecture

UserProfessor Koen Steemers BSc BArch MPhil PhD RIBA ARB, Professor of Sustainable Design, Department of Architecture.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 13 March 2017, 18:00-19:00

Sedgwick Club talks

RESCHEDULED: ERC Equipoise careers presentation

Hear about careers in oil and gas, with free cheese and wine!

UserERC Equipoise .

HouseHarker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockThursday 02 March 2017, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - Evolution in action: Materials, Design and Sustainability

A COMPLIMENTARY DRINKS RECEPTION TO FOLLOW ON AFTER THE LECTURE WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE FOYER TO THE LECTURE THEATRE FOR ALL ATTENDEES

UserProfessor Michael F Ashby, CBE FRS FREng, Emeritus Professor of Materials, Department of Engineering.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 01 March 2017, 18:00-19:00

Sedgwick Club talks

Volcano hunting in Papua New Guinea

UserLois Salem, Cambridge.

HouseHarker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockMonday 27 February 2017, 17:30-18:30

Sedgwick Club talks

PhD Showcase

UserLawrence Cowton, Victoria Honour, Luke Grinham.

HouseHarker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockMonday 20 February 2017, 17:30-18:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Buoyancy and chemical effects in geophysics

UserSilvana Cardoso (Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology).

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 17 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A Lab of One's Own: Science & Suffrage in World War One

UserDr Patricia Fara, President, British Society for the History of Science.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 13 February 2017, 18:00-19:00

Sedgwick Club talks

Humans as the new geology

UserMike Ellis, BGS.

HouseHarker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockMonday 13 February 2017, 17:30-18:30

Sedgwick Club talks

20,000 Rocks Under The Sea: Journey to the Pito Deep

Live streaming from a research ship! Free and open to all.

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseTilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 07 February 2017, 17:00-18:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

A multiscale modelling strategy for virtual design of metallic alloys

UserProf Javier LLorca, IMDEA Materials Institute, University of Madrid.

HouseLR4, Engineering Department.

ClockFriday 03 February 2017, 14:00-15:00

Sedgwick Club talks

Mercury: Geology of the sun's innermost planet

UserDavid Rothery, Open University.

HouseHarker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockMonday 30 January 2017, 17:30-18:30

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Taking control of flowing dense suspensions: formulation, rheology and shear thickening

UserDr Chris Ness, Maudslay-Butler Research Fellow, Pembroke College, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology.

HouseDepartment of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, West Cambridge Site, LT2.

ClockWednesday 25 January 2017, 16:00-17:00

Sedgwick Club talks

What keeps the Earth habitable?

UserPhilip Pogge von Strandmann, UCL Birkbeck.

HouseHarker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockMonday 23 January 2017, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Materials Challenges for Rolls Royce

UserDr Neil Glover, Head of Materials - Capability Acquisition at Rolls-Royce plc.

HouseOatley Meeting Room.

ClockFriday 13 January 2017, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

SCISOC TALK - Our cosmic origins: everything from nothing

UserProfessor Carlos Frenk, Ogden Professor of Fundamental Physics at Durham University.

HouseDepartment of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 29 November 2016, 20:00-21:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Biological and bio-inspired locomotion at small scales - MECHANICS COLLOQUIUM

UserProfessor Antonio de Simone, Sculoa Internationale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, Italy.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR4.

ClockFriday 25 November 2016, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Biological and bio-inspired locomotion at small scales

UserProf Antonio De Simone, Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, Italy.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR4.

ClockFriday 25 November 2016, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Climate change and local wildlife

UserBrian Eversham, Chief Executive of the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 21 November 2016, 18:00-19:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

SCISOC TALK - Engineering challenges in creating underground space

UserProfessor Lord Robert Mair, Sir Kirby Laing Professor of Civil Engineering.

HouseDepartment of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockThursday 17 November 2016, 20:00-21:30

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

FEniCS-Shells: solving thin structural theories using a high-level finite element language

UserDr Jack S. Hale, Research Unit in Engineering Science, Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering, University of Luxembourg..

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 10 November 2016, 11:30-12:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

SCISOC TALK - Opossums, Catastrophes, and Homeostasis

UserProfessor Ian Stewart, Professor of Mathematics at Warwick University.

HouseDepartment of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 08 November 2016, 20:00-21:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Molecular medicines for the lysosome

UserProfessor Timothy Cox MD FRCP FMedSci, Professor of Medicine Emeritus.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 07 November 2016, 18:00-19:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Nanoparticle based analysis of biomolecules, cells and tissue

UserProfessor Duncan Graham, Centre for Molecular Nanometrology, Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry, University of Strathclyde.

HouseDepartment of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, West Cambridge Site.

ClockWednesday 02 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

SCISOC TALK - Black holes and revelations

UserDr Christopher Berry, Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Co-author of recent gravitational waves paper.

HouseDepartment of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 01 November 2016, 20:00-21:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

SCISOC TALK - The Black dog: why don't we care?

UserProfessor Vikram Patel, Professor of International Mental Health at the LSHTM.

HouseDepartment of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 25 October 2016, 20:00-21:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE - Nanostructured steel: the challenge of manufacture

UserProfessor Sir Harry Bhadeshia FRS FREng, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 24 October 2016, 18:00-19:00

Sedgwick Club talks

Mercury: Geology of the sun's innermost planet

UserDavid Rothery, Open University.

HouseHarker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockMonday 24 October 2016, 17:00-18:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Contacts and Fretting - MECHANICS COLLOQUIUM

UserProfessor David Hills, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR4.

ClockFriday 21 October 2016, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Contacts and Fretting

UserProf David Hills, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR4.

ClockFriday 21 October 2016, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Packing dominoes and other shapes

UserProfessor Imre Leader, Department of Pure Mathematics & Mathematical Statistics.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 10 October 2016, 18:00-19:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Turbulent Taylor Couette Flow

UserBruno Ekhardt (Universität Marburg) .

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 21 July 2016, 16:00-17:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Physics of Surfing

UserChristophe Clanet, LadHyx, GK Batchelor Lecturer - DAMTP.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 19 May 2016, 11:30-12:30

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Catalytic selective oxidation in biomass conversion

UserProfessor Yanhui YANG, School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

HouseLecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, New Museums Site.

ClockThursday 12 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Vibration based structural health monitoring: from Bridges to Wind Turbines

This lecture is part of the Structures Research Seminar series

UserFilipe Magalhaes, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 6.

ClockFriday 06 May 2016, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Modelling non-symmetry of collagen fibre dispersion in the elasticity of arterial wall tissue

UserProfessor Raymond Ogden, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Glasgow.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR4.

ClockFriday 29 April 2016, 14:00-15:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Design and Synthesis of Catalytic Metal-Organic Framework Materials

UserProfessor Omar Farha, Department of Chemistry, International Institute for Nanotechnology, Northwestern University.

HouseLecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, New Museums Site.

ClockFriday 22 April 2016, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Evolution of life - ONE DAY MEETING

ONE DAY MEETING

UserOrganisers: Professor Ray Goldstein FRS and Professor Simon Conway Morris FRS.

HouseBabbage Lecture Theatre - New Museums Site.

ClockFriday 18 March 2016, 09:00-17:45

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Towards a cure for Alzheimer's Disease

UserProfessor Michele Vendruscolo, Centre for Misfolding Diseases, Department of Chemistry.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 07 March 2016, 18:00-19:00

Sedgwick Club talks

Dinosaurs in the Crystal Palace Park

UserProfessor Joe Cain (University College London).

HouseHarker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockMonday 07 March 2016, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Campath-1H: how a famous antibody found its disease

UserProfessor Alastair Compston, Professor Emeritus of Neurology, Department of Clinical Neurosciences.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 22 February 2016, 18:00-19:00

Sedgwick Club talks

Climate Change Impacts in Polar Regions: Lessons from Antarctic Moss Bank Archives

UserProfessor Howard Griffiths (University of Cambridge).

HouseHarker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockMonday 15 February 2016, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Fracking - shale gas extraction and protecting buildings from tunnelling subsidence

UserProfessor Lord Mair CBE FREng FRS, Sir Kirby Laing Professor of Civil Engineering, Head of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Department of Engineering.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 08 February 2016, 18:00-19:00

Sedgwick Club talks

Landscape Response to Active Normal Faulting: Rivers, Rates and Dates

UserDr Alexander Whittaker (Imperial College, London).

HouseHarker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockMonday 08 February 2016, 17:00-18:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Adhesion of Volcanic Ashes in Gas Turbines and Potential Effects on Thermal Barrier Coatings

Mechanics Colloquium

UserProfessor Bill Clyne, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR4.

ClockFriday 05 February 2016, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Scisoc Talk: Sir David Spiegelhalter

UserDavid Spiegelhalter (Statistical Laboratory).

HouseLT1, Department of Engineering.

ClockTuesday 02 February 2016, 20:00-21:30

Sedgwick Club talks

The Ignorance Project

UserEkbal Hussain (University of Leeds; Geology for Global Development).

HouseHarker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockMonday 01 February 2016, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V HILL LECTURE - Oxygen sensing: from worms to people and genes to drugs

UserProfessor Patrick Maxwell DPhil FRCP FMedSci, Regius Professor of Physic, School of Clinical Medicine.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 25 January 2016, 18:00-19:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

The fluid dynamics of a suspension of frazil ice crystals

UserDavid Rees Jones (Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics, University of Oxford).

HouseMR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockMonday 25 January 2016, 13:00-14:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Molecular engineering for sustainable energy applications

UserJacqueline M. Cole, Head of Molecular Engineering, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

HouseLecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, New Museums Site.

ClockWednesday 20 January 2016, 16:00-17:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

SciSoc Talk: Dame Athene Donald - "Physics of the Everyday"

UserProfessor Dame Athene Donald ( Director, Physics of Medicine, Cavendish Laboratory).

HouseLT1, Department of Engineering.

ClockTuesday 19 January 2016, 20:00-21:30

Sedgwick Club talks

Mountains to Deserts: Insights from Garnet

UserDr Anna Bird (University of Hull).

HouseHarker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockMonday 18 January 2016, 17:00-18:00

Sedgwick Club talks

The Search For New Planets

UserMaximilian Guenther (University of Cambridge).

HouseHarker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockMonday 30 November 2015, 17:00-18:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Mixing at the fringes of a rapidly melting Antarctic ice shelf

UserAlberto Naviera-Garabato (National Oceanography Centre, Southampton).

HouseMR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockMonday 30 November 2015, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Epigenetic inheritance and parent-of-origin effects

UserProfessor Anne Ferguson Smith, Department of Genetics.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 23 November 2015, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - Molecules against cancer or for long-term memory storage

A COMPLIMENTARY DRINKS RECEPTION TO FOLLOW ON AFTER THE LECTURE WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE FOYER TO THE LECTURE THEATRE FOR ALL ATTENDEES

UserProfessor Roger Y Tsien ForMemRS, Department of Pharmacology, Chemistry & Biochemistry and HHMI, University of California, San Diego.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 11 November 2015, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The human brain - a lesson in green technology

UserProfessor Simon Laughlin FRS, Professor of Neurobiology, Department of Zoology.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 09 November 2015, 18:00-19:00

Sedgwick Club talks

The Long-Range Societal Impacts of Large Eruptions

UserProfessor Clive Oppenheimer (University of Cambridge).

HouseHarker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockMonday 09 November 2015, 17:00-18:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Strain accommodation in kinking nonlinear elastic solids

UserProfessor Michel Barsoum, Dept of Materials Science & Engineering.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR4.

ClockFriday 30 October 2015, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Strain accommodation in kinking nonlinear elastic solids

UserProf. Michel W. Barsoum, Department of Materials Science and Engineering.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR4.

ClockFriday 30 October 2015, 14:00-16:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

SciSoc Talk: Professor Jeremy Baumberg: Where is my nanobot?

UserProfessor Jeremy Baumberg (NanoPhotonics Centre, University of Cambridge).

HouseThe Arthur Goodhart Lecture Theatre (LG19), Faculty of Law.

ClockTuesday 27 October 2015, 19:00-20:30

Sedgwick Club talks

Forensic Geology - Hero or Villain?

UserDr Andrew Moncrieff (Hawkins).

HouseHarker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockMonday 19 October 2015, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE - The statistical physics of stem cell biology: Dicing with fate

UserProfessor Benjamin D Simons, Herchel Smith Professor of Physics, Department of Physics.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 12 October 2015, 18:00-19:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Turbulence still surprises: explorations using a 1D model

INFORMAL SEMINAR - not at the usual time

UserAlan Kerstein (Combustion Research Facility, Sandia National Labs, CA).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 17 September 2015, 14:00-15:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Development of Nanomaterials and Microscale Platforms for Optical and Electrochemical Biosensing

UserDr. Steve Semancik, Bioprocess Measurements Group, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, Maryland USA.

HouseLecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, New Museums Site.

ClockMonday 22 June 2015, 14:30-15:30

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Dynamics and Instability of straight and helical Vortices

UserProf Maurice Rossi, CNRS-Institut D'Alembert University of Paris 6.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 14 May 2015, 12:00-13:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

General methodology of dealing with uncertainty in applied mechanics

UserProfessor Isaac E. Elishakoff, Department of Ocean & Mechanical Engineering, Florida Atlantic University, USA..

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture room 3A.

ClockFriday 08 May 2015, 11:00-12:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Kinneyia, a fossil hydrodynamic instability

UserLucas Goering, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics, Germany.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 23 April 2015, 12:00-13:00

Sedgwick Club talks

Ophiolite insights into the oxygen isotope composition of the Cambrian ocean

Sedgwick Club Conference 2015

UserDr Sasha Turchyn (University of Cambridge).

HouseTilley Lecture Theater, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockFriday 13 March 2015, 17:00-17:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Liquid drops on soft solids

UserJacco Snoeijer (University of Twente).

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 13 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

Sedgwick Club talks

Imaging Moving Wet Stuff: An Introduction to Seismic Oceanography

Sedgwick Club Conference 2015

UserProfessor Nicky White (University of Cambridge).

HouseTilley Lecture Theater, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockFriday 13 March 2015, 15:45-16:15

Sedgwick Club talks

A few evolutionary myths

Sedgwick Club Conference 2015

UserProfessor Simon Conway Morris.

HouseTilley Lecture Theater, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockFriday 13 March 2015, 15:15-15:45

Sedgwick Club talks

Enceladus - a miniature, active ice-world

Sedgwick Club Conference 2015

UserProfessor Francis Nimmo (University of California Santa Cruz).

HouseTilley Lecture Theater, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockFriday 13 March 2015, 14:45-15:15

Sedgwick Club talks

Fire on Earth: an intimate history

Sedgwick Club Conference 2015

UserProfessor Andrew Scott (Royal Holloway University of London).

HouseTilley Lecture Theater, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockFriday 13 March 2015, 13:30-14:00

Sedgwick Club talks

The lithospheric structure of Pangea

Sedgwick Club Conference 2015

UserProfessor Dan McKenzie (University of Cambridge).

HouseTilley Lecture Theater, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockFriday 13 March 2015, 13:00-13:30

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Molecular choreography: Towards the engineering of antibody behaviour.

UserDr Jonathan Phillips, Senior Research Associate, Department of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology, Cambridge.

HouseLecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, New Museums Site.

ClockWednesday 11 March 2015, 14:00-15:00

Sedgwick Club talks

New Jurassic Dinosaurs from the Gobi Desert of Western China

UserProfessor James Clark & Professor Catherine Forster (George Washington University).

HouseHarker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockMonday 09 March 2015, 17:00-18:00

Engineering Fluids Group Seminar

Experiments with internal solitary waves in stratified fluids

UserProfessor Peter Davies, University of Dundee .

HouseLR3B, Inglis Building, CUED..

ClockFriday 06 March 2015, 13:00-14:00

Sedgwick Club talks

ERC Equipoise Wine & Cheese Evening 2015

FREE wine and cheese this Thursday evening!

UserDr Adam Law & Nicola Pocock (ERC Equipoise).

HouseHarker Room 1 and Common Room, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockThursday 05 March 2015, 17:00-19:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Title to be confirmed

UserFelicity Bartholomew and Finn Box, BP Institute.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 05 March 2015, 12:00-13:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Publishing in the Nature Group

UserDr Enda Bergin, Associate Editor, Nature Communications, Nature Publishing Group, London.

HouseLecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, New Museums Site.

ClockWednesday 25 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V HILL LECTURE - Science and the quiet art revisited

UserProfessor Sir David Weatherall FRS, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 23 February 2015, 18:00-19:00

Sedgwick Club talks

Copper Giants: Geology, Genesis and New Pathways to Discovery

UserDr Jamie Wilkinson (Natural History Museum).

HouseHarker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockMonday 23 February 2015, 17:00-18:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Resource efficiency: what are the limits?

UserJonathan Cullen, Dept of Engineering, Uni of Cambridge.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 19 February 2015, 12:00-13:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

BPI Speakers

UserStefano Rocco, Tim Beeson-Jones, Tom Eaves - BPI.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 12 February 2015, 12:00-13:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Particle-Laden Flows in Rotating Drums: The Silent Secrets

UserProf. Peter Thomas, Fluid Dynamics Research Centre, School of Engineering, University of Warwick.

HouseLecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, New Museums Site.

ClockWednesday 11 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Lighting the Future: Next generation LED lighting to save energy and improve our health

UserProfessor Sir Colin Humphreys CBE FREng FRS, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 09 February 2015, 18:00-19:00

Sedgwick Club talks

Learning about the early Solar System from cometary dust

UserDr Natalie Starkey (Open University).

HouseHarker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockMonday 09 February 2015, 17:00-18:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Industrial sustainability - a key manufacturing paradigm

UserDr Dai Morgan, EPSRC Centre for Industrial Sustainabilty, Institute for Manufacturing, Cambridge.

HouseLecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, New Museums Site.

ClockWednesday 04 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

Sedgwick Club talks

Does the kiss of a LIP ever linger for long?

UserProfessor Conall Mac Niocaill (University of Oxford).

HouseHarker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockMonday 02 February 2015, 17:00-18:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Building ventilation and applications in practice

UserShaun Fitzgerald (Breathing Buildings, Engineering).

HouseMR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockMonday 02 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

The Hydrodynamics of Particulate Flow: a Multi-scale Approach

UserProf. Raffaella Ocone FREng, School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University.

HouseLecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, New Museums Site.

ClockWednesday 28 January 2015, 14:00-15:00

Sedgwick Club talks

Earthquakes triggered by seismic waves

UserProfessor Emily Brodsky (University of California Santa Cruz).

HouseHarker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockMonday 26 January 2015, 17:00-18:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Microorganism billiards

UserJean-Luc Thiffeault (University of Wisconsin).

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 23 January 2015, 16:00-17:00

Sedgwick Club talks

Food for thought: Edible explorations of volcanic processes

UserDr Alison Rust (University of Bristol).

HouseHarker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockMonday 19 January 2015, 17:00-18:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Ditch the 2 degC goal

UserCharlie Kennel and David Victor (Scripps, UCSD).

HouseMR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockMonday 19 January 2015, 13:00-14:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

BPI End of Term Seminar

Note unusual time

UserAndy Hogg, Dave Pritchard, Jerry Phillips, Pete Smith.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 04 December 2014, 14:00-15:20

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Stem Cells

UserProf Austin Smith, Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

HouseDepartment of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 02 December 2014, 20:00-21:15

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Cliffs and screes

UserKeith Richards / Mike Bethel (Geography).

HouseMR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockMonday 01 December 2014, 13:00-14:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

SEE DETAILS BELOW

UserAlex Evans, Nicola Mingotti, Kate Miller - BPI.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 20 November 2014, 11:30-12:30

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Every Man's Fluid Mechanics

UserDr Ian Wilson, Department of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology, Cambridge .

HouseLecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, New Museums Site.

ClockWednesday 19 November 2014, 14:00-15:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Unsteady flow of yield stress materials

UserDr Miguel Moyers-Gonzalez, School of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

HouseLecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, New Museums Site.

ClockWednesday 12 November 2014, 14:00-15:00

Sedgwick Club talks

Darwin’s “beloved barnacles” - an evolutionary success story

Note: this talk begins at 6pm

UserProfessor Andrew Gale (University of Portsmouth).

HouseHarker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockMonday 10 November 2014, 18:00-19:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Generating the Fuel of Life

UserSir John Walker, MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit.

HouseDepartment of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 04 November 2014, 20:00-21:15

Sedgwick Club talks

Darwin's Beagle fossils and their significance for his evolutionary thought

UserProfessor Adrian Lister (Natural History Museum).

HouseHarker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockMonday 03 November 2014, 17:00-18:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Surface texturing for turbulent friction reduction

UserRicardo Garcia-Mayoral, Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 30 October 2014, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Perception and belief in psychosis

UserProfessor Paul Fletcher, Department of Psychiatry.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 27 October 2014, 18:00-19:00

Sedgwick Club talks

Shell Seminar - Life as a Shell Graduate

UserAmy Nicholson & Catherine Wasse (Shell).

HouseHarker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockMonday 27 October 2014, 17:00-18:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Quantitative Prediction of Solute Strengthening in Metal Alloys

UserProfessor William Curtin, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne EPFL.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR4.

ClockFriday 24 October 2014, 14:30-16:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Building Brains

UserProf Steve Furber, University of Manchester.

HouseDepartment of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 21 October 2014, 20:00-21:15

Sedgwick Club talks

Active tectonics and geomorphology

UserProfessor Jean-Philippe Avouac (University of Cambridge).

HouseHarker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockMonday 20 October 2014, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE - The Computational Universe

UserProfessor Leslie Valiant FRS, T. Jefferson Coolidge Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Harvard USA.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 13 October 2014, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies

Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies: Special Topic Seminars

If you would like to attend please RSVP to Camilla Burgess (c.burgess@jbs.cam.ac.uk)

UserVarious.

HouseJudge Business School, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1AG.

ClockMonday 23 June 2014, 09:00-15:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Droplet splashing

Note unusual day

UserMichael Brenner, Harvard University.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 10 June 2014, 13:00-14:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Synovial Fluid Lubrication of Artificial Joints

UserPhillipa Cann, Tribology Group, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 05 June 2014, 11:30-12:30

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

TBA

UserPietro Cicuta, Physics, University of Cambridge.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 29 May 2014, 11:30-12:30

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

The Comfort Controversy

UserProfessor Fergus Nicol, Professor Michael Humphreys.

HouseCRASSH Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 28 May 2014, 12:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Henslow Fellow Lectures - Use of random matrices

The second of two half-hour lectures by the Society's Henslow Fellows

UserDr Stephanie Jacquot, formerly of the Statistical Laboratory, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 14 May 2014, 18:30-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Henslow Fellows Lectures - Resolving the early record of animal evolution: Insights from the enigmatic Ediacaran Biota

The first of two half-hour lectures by the Society's Henslow Fellows

UserDr Alexander Liu, Department of Earth Sciences.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 14 May 2014, 18:00-18:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Fronts and Frontogenesis

2nd Year PhD Talks

UserCallum Shakespeare, DAMTP.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 02 May 2014, 15:36-15:46

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Elastic viscous fingering

2nd Year PhD Talks

UserGunnar Peng, ITG/DAMTP.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 02 May 2014, 14:44-14:54

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Chemically Synthesised Carbon Nanomaterials

UserDr Mohammad Choucair, Dept of Chemistry, University of Sydney.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 17 April 2014, 11:30-12:30

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Mechanics of Stretchable Electronics

UserProfessor Yonggang Huang, Joseph Cummings Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR4.

ClockThursday 10 April 2014, 14:30-16:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Visco-plastic lubrication: from theory to application

UserSarah Hormozi (Universite Paris Est, Laboratoire Navier).

HouseMR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 03 April 2014, 13:00-14:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Visco-plastic lubrication: from theory to application

UserSarah Hormozi (Universite Paris Est, Laboratoire Navier).

HouseMR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockThursday 03 April 2014, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Captured Thoughts: The Collaborations of an Artist and a Scientist

UserProf Nicky Clayton & Clive Wilkins, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockFriday 14 March 2014, 20:00-21:15

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Balancing a ball on a moving vertical wall covered in viscous fluid

UserTom Mullin, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 14 March 2014, 16:00-17:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Quantum Games with Spins Alight

UserDr Mete Atatüre, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 11 March 2014, 20:00-21:15

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Development and Repair of Neurons

UserProf Roger Keynes, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience.

HouseSeminar Room, Institute of Criminology.

ClockTuesday 04 March 2014, 13:15-14:00

Sedgwick Club talks

Foraminifera as bioindicators of marine environments

UserSigal Abramovic (Ben Gurion University of the Negev Beer Sheva).

HouseHarker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockMonday 03 March 2014, 17:00-18:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Neurons Feel the Force

UserDr Kristian Franze, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 25 February 2014, 20:00-21:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Hop, skip and jump - muscles are not just for running

A V HILL LECTURE

UserProfessor Michael Ferenczi, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Singapore.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 24 February 2014, 18:00-19:00

Sedgwick Club talks

101 years of Geochronology and the EARTHTIME revolution (2003 to present)

UserDan Condon, NERC Isotope Geosciences Laboratory, British Geological Survey.

HouseHarker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockMonday 24 February 2014, 17:00-18:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The sweet smell of E. coli division

UserDr David Summers, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 18 February 2014, 20:00-21:15

Sedgwick Club talks

5 million years of tropical ocean temperature evolution

UserDr Charlotte O'Brien (University of Oxford).

HouseHarker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockMonday 17 February 2014, 17:00-18:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Flying through volcanic umbrella clouds

UserHerbert Huppert, ITG/DAMTP & Bristol & UNSW.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 14 February 2014, 16:00-17:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Title to be confirmed

UserAlan Eales, Fanny Yuen and Alan McCreanor, BP Institute.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 13 February 2014, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The dinosaur Iguanodon (1809-2013) - palaeobiology in action

UserDr David B Norman, Reader in Palaeobiology & Curator of the Sedgwick Museum, Department of Earth Sciences.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 10 February 2014, 18:00-19:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Fingers, bulges and wrinkles - some contact line problems

UserNeil Balmforth, Department of Mathematics, University of British Columbia.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 07 February 2014, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Experiments in multidisciplinary materials research

UserProfessor Mark Miodownik, University College London.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR6.

ClockFriday 07 February 2014, 14:30-16:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Phyllotaxis, pushed pattern fronts and optimal packing

UserAlan Newell, Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 31 January 2014, 16:00-17:00

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

**EVENT POSTPONED** Cambridge's Future: Green Jobs, Green Growth

UserDr Julian Huppert, Member of Parliament for Cambridge.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 3.

ClockThursday 30 January 2014, 20:00-21:00

Sedgwick Club talks

A philosophy for geology: Charles Lyell and the uniformity of nature

UserProfessor Jim Secord (University of Cambridge).

HouseHarker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockMonday 27 January 2014, 17:00-18:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Siqueiros used a hydrodynamic instability to create provocative images in painting

UserRoberto Zenit Instituto de Investigaciones en Materiales Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 24 January 2014, 16:00-17:00

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Community Energy Initiatives and Energy Behaviours

UserSarah Inge Parker, DPHil candidate, The Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford.

HouseCRASSH Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 22 January 2014, 12:00-14:00

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Community Energy Initiatives and Energy Behaviours

UserSarah Inge Parker, DPHil candidate, The Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford.

HouseCRASSH Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

ClockWednesday 22 January 2014, 12:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

COLOUR

One day meeting - free entry and open to all

UserOrganised by Professor John Mollon FRS.

HouseLecture Room 0 Department of Engineering.

ClockThursday 09 January 2014, 09:30-17:15

Sedgwick Club talks

Nanoparticles in Sandstone Groundwaters

UserProfessor John Tellam (University of Birmingham).

HouseHarker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockMonday 02 December 2013, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Decoding human genomes on a population scale: solexa/illumina sequencing

Note new start time of 6.00pm

UserProfessor Shankar Balasubramanian FRS FMedSchi, Herchel Smith Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 25 November 2013, 18:00-19:00

Sedgwick Club talks

Evolution of dinosaur respiratory systems and what it might mean

UserDr Paul Barrett (National History Museum).

HouseHarker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockMonday 25 November 2013, 17:00-18:00

Sedgwick Club talks

The role of Innovation and Technology in meeting future Energy Challenges

UserDr Keith Gerdes (President of the European Region of the AAPG).

HouseHarker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockMonday 18 November 2013, 17:00-18:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Shallow flows: 2D or not 2D?

UserGertJan van Heijst (Eindhoven University of Technology).

HouseMR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockMonday 18 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Inversion and perversion in biomechanics: from microscopic anisotropy to macroscopic chirality

UserProfessor Alain Goriely, OCCAM, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR4.

ClockFriday 15 November 2013, 14:30-16:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Genomics, Structural Biology and Making New Medicines: An Opportunity for Academia to Contribute

HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE

UserProfessor Sir Tom Blundell FRS FMedSci, Emeritus Professor and Director of Research, Department of Biochemistry.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 13 November 2013, 18:00-19:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The Headache of Hypoxia

UserProf Hugh Montgomery, University College London.

HouseDepartment of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 12 November 2013, 20:00-21:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The cultured chimpanzee: nonsense or breakthrough?

Note new start time of 6.00pm

UserProfessor William McGrew, Division of Biological Anthropology, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology .

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 11 November 2013, 18:00-19:00

Sedgwick Club talks

Geological mapping: from maps to models

UserDr Rachel Dearden and Mr Holger Kessler (British Geological Survey).

HouseHarker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockMonday 11 November 2013, 17:00-18:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

On resurging a bore-soliton-splash rogue wave

UserProfessor Onno Bokhove, Mathematics, University of Leeds.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 08 November 2013, 16:00-17:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Why is Chemistry Difficult?

UserDr Jonathan Goodman, Department of Chemistry, Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockWednesday 06 November 2013, 20:00-21:15

Sedgwick Club talks

Why the ground matters: why tunnels need geologists

UserThomas Robinson (London Bridge Associates).

HouseHarker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockMonday 04 November 2013, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Antarctica, Ozone and Change: some links between environmental concerns

Note new start time of 6.00pm

UserMr Jonathan Shanklin, British Antarctic Survey .

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 28 October 2013, 18:00-19:00

Sedgwick Club talks

From our own correspondent: BBC Stories

UserProfessor Simon Redfern (University of Cambridge).

HouseHarker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockMonday 28 October 2013, 17:00-18:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Nanotechnology for the Oilfield

UserJames Tour, BP Lecturer, Rice University, Houston.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 24 October 2013, 11:30-12:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Super-resolution Microscopy

UserDr Eric Rees, Department of Chemical Engineering, Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 22 October 2013, 20:00-21:15

Sedgwick Club talks

Palaeontology and the tree of life

UserDr Robert Asher (University of Cambridge).

HouseHarker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockMonday 21 October 2013, 17:00-18:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

From Mars to the Multiverse

UserLord Martin Rees, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 15 October 2013, 20:00-21:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Physics, Chemistry,Materials Science and Biology from the Schrodinger Equation

LARMOR LECTURE - note new start time of 6.00pm

UserProfessor Mike Payne FRS, Head of Theory of Condensed Matter Group, Department of Physics.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 14 October 2013, 18:00-19:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Symmetry breaking in fluid-structure interaction systems

UserProfessor Alessandro Bottaro, DICCA, Scuola Politecnica Universita di Genova.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 11 October 2013, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

The fluid mechanics wave-particle duality

UserEmmanuel Fort (Langevin Institute, ESPCI, Paris).

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 14 June 2013, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

16th Cambridge/Oxford Applied Mathematics Meeting

aka the Woolly Owl competition

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 13 June 2013, 10:45-17:35

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Mineral Separation by Froth Flotation: Research Tools and Techniques

UserProfessor Jan Cilliers FREng, Department of Earth Science and Engineering Royal School of Mines, Imperial College London.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 23 May 2013, 11:30-12:30

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Why did the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull volcanic eruption cloud last so long?

UserMark Jellinek, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences University of British Columbia.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 09 May 2013, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Inaugural Henslow Fellows Lectures - Moving without a brain: how do fruit fly larvae explore?

The second of two half-hour lectures by the Society's Henslow Fellows

UserDr Jimena Berni, Department of Zoology.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 24 April 2013, 18:30-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Inaugural Henslow Fellow Lectures - Turning the tables in plant-animal interactions: the tricks and traps of insect-eating pitcher plants

The first of two half-hour lectures by the Society's Henslow Fellows

UserDr Ulrike Bauer, Department of Plant Sciences.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 24 April 2013, 18:00-18:30

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Consider the Icicle

UserStephen Morris, Dept of Physics, University of Toronto.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 21 March 2013, 11:30-12:30

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Cambridge College Retrofit and Energy Efficiency

UserPeter Armitage, PhD Student, University of Cambridge.

HouseCRASSH, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

ClockThursday 14 March 2013, 13:30-15:30

Sedgwick Club talks

'50 Shades of Grey: Communicating Geology'

UserProf. Iain Stewart (University of Plymouth).

HouseTilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockWednesday 13 March 2013, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Low Carbon Road Freight Transport

UserProfessor David Cebon, Department of Engineering.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 11 March 2013, 17:30-18:30

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

The dynamics of land-atmosphere interaction in West Africa

UserDoug Parker (Leeds, Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science).

HouseMR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockMonday 04 March 2013, 13:00-14:00

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Energy Retrofit

UserDr Anna Mavrogianni and Dr Rokia Raslan.

HouseCRASSH, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

ClockThursday 28 February 2013, 13:30-15:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

POSTPONED: Energy and Life

UserProf. Sir John Ernest Walker, MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit & Nobel Prize Laureate.

HouseDepartment of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 26 February 2013, 20:00-21:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V HILL LECTURE - Vaccines: from science to policy

UserProfessor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Vice-Chancellor, University of Cambridge.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 25 February 2013, 17:30-18:30

Sedgwick Club talks

Early Terrestrial Animals

UserDr. Russell Garwood (University of Manchester).

HouseHarker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockMonday 25 February 2013, 17:00-18:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Modelling the plumbing of ice sheets

UserIan Hewitt (Oxford, Mathematical Institute).

HouseMR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockMonday 25 February 2013, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Multiscale mechanics and cohesive-surface models

UserProfessor René de Borst, University of Glasgow.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR4.

ClockFriday 15 February 2013, 14:30-16:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Under the volcano: geological fieldwork in East Greenland

UserDr Marian Holness, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 11 February 2013, 17:30-18:30

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Multiphase Hele-Shaw Flows: from Beaches to Dredgers

UserOnno Bokhove, Astro- & Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, University of Leeds.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 07 February 2013, 11:30-12:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Our shared destinies within the planet’s boundaries

UserProf. Sir David King, former Chief Scientific Advisor.

HouseDepartment of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 05 February 2013, 20:00-21:15

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

UserProfessor Frank Baaijens, Eindhoven University of Technology.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR4.

ClockFriday 01 February 2013, 14:30-16:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Making Nanoscience and Nanotechnology useful

UserProfessor Sir Mark Welland FRS FREng, Professor of Nanoscience Technology, Nanoscience Centre.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 28 January 2013, 17:30-18:30

Sedgwick Club talks

The geological record of ocean Acidification

UserProf. Andy Ridgwell, University of Bristol.

HouseHarker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockMonday 28 January 2013, 17:00-18:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Turbulence and energetics in Jupiter's atmosphere

UserPeter Read (Oxford, Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics).

HouseMR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockMonday 28 January 2013, 13:00-14:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Control design for amplifier and oscillator flows

UserProfessor Peter Schmid, LadHyX - CNRS - Ecole Polytechnique.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 24 January 2013, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

ONE DAY MEETING - BRAGG'S LAW

Organised by Professor Haroon Ahmed FRS and Professor Archie Howie FRS

UserSir John Meurig Thomas FRS, University of Cambridge; Professor A. Howie FRS, University of Cambridge; Professor J A K Howard FRS, University of Durham, Dr Richard Henderson, University of Cambridge, Professor John Rodenburg, University of Sheffield; Pr.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 11 January 2013, 09:00-17:30

Cambridge Carbon Footprint

Chasing Ice and Q&A Session at the Arts Picturehouse

UserDr Ed King, British Antartic Survey glaciologist.

HouseArts Picturehouse Cinema, 38-39 St. Andrews Street.

ClockSaturday 15 December 2012, 15:00-17:15

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Computational Building Performance Analysis

UserSam Wilkinson, PhD Candidate, University College London.

HouseCRASSH, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

ClockThursday 29 November 2012, 13:30-15:30

Sedgwick Club talks

Glaciovolcanic sequences and reconstructing past Antarctic ice sheets

UserProfessor John Smellie (University of Leicester, Dept of Geology).

HouseHarker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockMonday 26 November 2012, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Sustainable Materials: with both eyes open

UserDr Julian Allwood, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 19 November 2012, 17:30-18:30

Sedgwick Club talks

Earthquake Damage Assessment: how, where and why?

UserDr. Roxane Foulser-Piggott, CARLtd .

HouseHarker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockMonday 19 November 2012, 17:00-18:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Aspects of science, technology and government

UserProfessor Roderick Smith, Imperial College.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR4.

ClockFriday 16 November 2012, 14:30-16:00

Cambridge Carbon Footprint

The Bioregional Economy - A talk by Molly Scott Cato

UserMolly Scott Cato, professor of Strategy and Sustainability at Roehampton University, Green Party spokesperson on economics and a Director of Transition Stroud..

HouseSt. Philip’s Church Centre, 185 Mill Road, Cambridge, CB1 3AN.

ClockThursday 15 November 2012, 19:30-22:30

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Sustainability Measures in Universities: Cambridge as a Case Study

UserDavid Green, Superintendent of Engineering Workshops, University of Cambridge.

HouseCRASSH, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

ClockThursday 15 November 2012, 13:30-15:30

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

TBA

UserPeter Dudfield, Daan van Sommeren, BP Institute.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 08 November 2012, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Seeing in three dimensions: philosophical issues and empirical findings

UserProfessor Brian Rogers, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 05 November 2012, 17:30-18:30

Sedgwick Club talks

Engineering in Sediments

UserProf. Malcolm Bolton, Geotechnical and Environmental Research Group.

HouseHarker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockMonday 29 October 2012, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

How Plants Grow: Chemical and Physical Interactions Create Developmental Patterns

UserProfessor Elliot Meyerowitz ForMemRS, Inaugural Director The Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 22 October 2012, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Vibrations induced by railway traffic: prediction and measurement

UserPedro Costa (Assistant Professor, Faculty of Engineering University of Porto).

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, Oatley Room 1.

ClockFriday 19 October 2012, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

CANCELLED: Double-diffusive convection

CANCELLED due to illness

UserPascale Garaud (UCSC).

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 19 October 2012, 16:00-17:00

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

GreenBRIDGE 2012 Symposium Summary

UserAaron Gillich (PhD Candidate, University of Cambridge).

HouseCRASSH, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

ClockThursday 18 October 2012, 13:30-15:30

Sedgwick Club talks

Nabro Volcano, Eritrea

UserDr. Clive Oppenheimer.

HouseHarker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockMonday 15 October 2012, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE - The Antikythera Mechanism and the Mechanical Universe

UserProfessor Mike Edmunds, Emeritus Professor of Astrophysics, University of Cardiff.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 08 October 2012, 17:30-18:30

Sedgwick Club talks

I know what you did last Summer

UserPart II and Part III students .

HouseHarker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockMonday 08 October 2012, 17:00-18:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

The mechanical energy budget of the geostrophic circulation in the World Ocean

An out-of-term seminar organized by Prof. Haynes

UserRob Scott (Laboratoire de Physique des Océans/University of Brest) .

HouseMR5 (NB not the usual MR2), Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 09 August 2012, 12:00-13:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Zonostrophic instability

An informal out-of-term seminar organized by Prof. McIntyre.

UserProfessor W. R. Young.

HouseMR14 (NB not the usual MR2), Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 28 June 2012, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Local and nonlocal energy transfers in a family of geophysically relevant 2D turbulence models

An informal out-of-term seminar organized by Dr Hitchcock.

UserBel Helen Burgess (University of Toronto).

HouseMR5 (NB not the usual MR2), Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 21 June 2012, 13:00-14:00

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Behaviour and Energy Use

UserIrina Shaorshadze, Margaret Thorley, Dr Rosie Robison, Aaron Gillich.

HouseCRASSH, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

ClockThursday 14 June 2012, 12:00-14:30

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Granular segregation in driven binary monolayers

UserDraga Pihler-puzovic, Centre for Nonlinear Dynamics, Uni of Manchester.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 14 June 2012, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Carbon Footprint

PlanEAT: Dinner and a Movie

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseRoss Street Community Centre.

ClockFriday 08 June 2012, 18:30-21:00

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Sensing the Historic Environment – Its Nature and Relevance

UserProf. DEAN HAWKES, Dr. HENRIK SCHOENEFELDT, Prof. COLIN PORTEOUS,.

HouseCRASSH, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

ClockThursday 31 May 2012, 12:00-14:30

Cambridge Carbon Footprint

What makes us happy?

UserProfessor Felicia Huppert, The Well-being Institute.

HouseCambridge Arts Picturehouse, St. Andrews Street.

ClockFriday 18 May 2012, 18:30-21:00

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Special GreenBRIDGE Seminar - Key-requirements for Evaluating Smart and Sustainable Development in Cities and Communities

UserDr Patrizia Lombardi - Politecnico di Torino, DIST – Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning.

HouseCRASSH, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

ClockWednesday 16 May 2012, 17:00-19:00

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Building Energy Performance for Refurbishment – Baselines, Monitoring and Benchmarks

UserKerry Sykes from the University of Cambridge, George Bartley from Building Sustainability.

HouseCRASSH, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

ClockThursday 03 May 2012, 12:00-14:30

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

(What's the Story) Internal Solitary Waves?

UserBruce Sutherland, Dept of Physics and of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 03 May 2012, 11:30-12:30

Sedgwick Club talks

Geohazards in On-shore Energy Projects

UserDavid Shilston - president designate of the Geological Society.

HouseHarker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockThursday 26 April 2012, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

"When Antarctica was green: Fossil plants reveal Antarctica's climate history"

LECTURE TO COMMEMORATE THE SCIENTIFIC WORK OF SCOTT'S POLAR EXPEDITION OF 1912

UserProfessor Jane Francis, Professor of Palaeoclimatology, of the University of Leeds.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 28 March 2012, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Carbon Footprint

Story of Stuff - The Next Chapter

UserBev Sedley, Trustee CCF.

HouseFriends Meeting House, 12 Jesus Lane.

ClockWednesday 14 March 2012, 19:30-21:30

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

The next 40 years

UserProfessor Jorgen Randers (Professor of Climate Strategy at the Norwegian Business School ; Co-author of Limits to Growth).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 14 March 2012, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Nine evolutionary myths: The closing of the Darwinian mind?

UserProfessor Simon Conway-Morris FRS, Department of Earth Sciences.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 12 March 2012, 17:30-18:30

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Downwelling in Basins Subject to Buoyancy Loss

UserClaudia Cenedese (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution).

HouseMR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockMonday 12 March 2012, 13:00-14:00

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

GreenBRIDGE Society Presents: Energy Consumption in the UK Non-Domestic Building Stock

UserDr James Keirstead, Research Fellow, Dept. of Civil & Env. Eng., Imperial College London.

HouseCRASSH, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

ClockThursday 08 March 2012, 11:45-14:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Making peace with the Earth

UserDr Vandana Shiva ( Navdanya International, India and the International Forum on Globalisation).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 07 March 2012, 18:00-19:30

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

This seminar has been cancelled

We regret to announce that this seminar has been cancelled

UserProf. Rhodri Williams – School of Engineering, University of Swansea.

HouseLecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, New Museums Site.

ClockWednesday 07 March 2012, 14:00-15:00

Sedgwick Club talks

Sedimentary processes beneath Antarctic ice streams

UserPoul Christoffersen - Scott Polar Research Institute.

HouseHarker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockMonday 05 March 2012, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Carbon Footprint

Advanced Recycling

UserMark Buckton, Cambridge City Council.

HouseSt Luke’s Church Centre, Victoria Road, Cambridge CB4 3DZ.

ClockThursday 01 March 2012, 19:30-21:30

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Sustainable capitalism: if not now, when?

UserJonathon Porritt CBE (Director of Sustainability, Forum for the Future).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 29 February 2012, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Quantum chemical games of life

UserProfessor Ali Alavi, Department of Chemistry.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 27 February 2012, 17:30-18:30

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

GreenBRIDGE Society Presents a Special Event: Post Durban Panel Discussion

UserSpeakers include: Prof. Doug Crawford-Brown, Jazmin Burgess, Dr Alison Cooke.

HouseBuckingham House, Murray Edwards College.

ClockFriday 24 February 2012, 17:00-19:00

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

GreenBRIDGE Society Presents: Promoting Sustainability Through Knowledge Exchange

UserNicholas Ridley, Managing Director of NC Real Estate Consulting Ltd and Ex-President of British Council for Offices.

HouseCRASSH, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

ClockThursday 23 February 2012, 11:45-14:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Quo vadis adsorption technology? -- An overview about future trends

UserProf. Dr.-Ing. Dieter Bathen - Fakultät für Ingenieurwissenschaften, Universität Duisburg-Essen.

HouseLecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, New Museums Site.

ClockWednesday 22 February 2012, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Carbon Footprint

The Economics of Happiness

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseCambridge Arts Picturehouse, St. Andrews Street.

ClockSunday 19 February 2012, 02:30-04:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Making Progress Toward Sustainable Societies in the Context of Global Climate Change

UserDr Don Huisingh (Senior Scientist in Sustainable Development, University of Tennessee ).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 15 February 2012, 18:00-19:30

Sedgwick Club talks

The Role of the Geologist in International Development

UserJoel Gill (King’s College London / Director, Geology for Global Development).

HouseHarker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockMonday 13 February 2012, 17:00-18:00

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Cambridge University Environmental Consulting Society: Green League Table Decomposed

UserDr Ben Russell, Research Fellow, Cambridge Centre for Micromechanics (CCM).

HouseCRASSH, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

ClockThursday 09 February 2012, 11:45-14:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

The power of markets to protect nature

UserIan Cheshire (Group Chief Executive, Kingfisher Group).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 08 February 2012, 18:00-19:30

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Sustainable Materials - with both eyes open

UserDr Julian Allwood (Cambridge University Engineering Department).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 01 February 2012, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Bulk High Temperature Superconductors for High Field Engineering Applications

G I TAYLOR LECTURE

UserProfessor David Cardwell, Professor of Superconducting Engineering, Department of Engineering.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 30 January 2012, 17:30-18:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Physical principles in sensing and signalling

A candidacy seminar for the DAMTP biophysics lectureship

UserRobert Endres (Imperial).

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 27 January 2012, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Statistical physics and hydrodynamics of microbial fluids

A candidacy seminar for the DAMTP biophysics lectureship

UserJörn Dunkel (DAMTP).

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 27 January 2012, 14:30-15:30

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Applying Sustainability in Universities

Complimentary tea coffee and biscuits will be served

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseCRASSH, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

ClockThursday 26 January 2012, 12:00-14:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

PlaqueTec Limited

UserJoseph Corrigan, Head of R&D, PlaqueTec Limited.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 26 January 2012, 11:30-12:30

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

2nd Year Posters and Presentations

Program available at http://www.ceb.cam.ac.uk/pages/jan12.html

User2nd Year research students.

HouseLecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, New Museums Site.

ClockWednesday 25 January 2012, 14:00-16:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Encapsulation of microorganisms in colloidosomes / Encapsulation of Inhibitors for Down-well Applications

UserPolly Keen, BP Institute, University of Cambridge / Wei Jin Gun, BP Institute, University of Cambridge.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 19 January 2012, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

ONE DAY MEETING - Geometry in Science

Organised by Professor Jim Woodhouse

UserProfessor Sir Michael Berry FRS; Professor Chris Calladine FRS ; Professor Gabor Domokos; Professor Jan Koenderink; Professor Gabriel Paternain; Professor Denis Weaire FRS.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockFriday 13 January 2012, 09:00-17:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Hollow vortices

UserStefan Llewellyn Smith (UCSD).

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 02 December 2011, 16:00-17:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

On the propagation of non-isothermal gravity currents in an inclined porous layer / Propulsion in Stokes flow

User Will Rayward-Smith, BP Institute, University of Cambridge / Tom Johnson, University of Birmingham.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 01 December 2011, 11:30-12:30

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Energy Consumption in the UK Non-Domestic Building Stock

Unfortunately, this talk has had to be postponed until later in the academic year

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room 17 Mill Lane.

ClockThursday 24 November 2011, 12:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Metallic Glasses: record-breaking properties for alloys from parvenus in the world of glasses

UserProfessor A Lindsay Greer, Head of Department, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 21 November 2011, 17:30-18:30

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Carbon Markets and Eastern Europe

Complimentary tea coffee and biscuits will be served

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room 17 Mill Lane.

ClockThursday 10 November 2011, 12:00-14:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

The Existence and Significance of Deeply Buried Landscapes

UserDr Nicholas White, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 10 November 2011, 11:30-12:30

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Interfaces and mixing in CO2 sequestration

UserDr Jerome Neufeld, BP Institute and DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 03 November 2011, 11:30-12:30

Sedgwick Club talks

Turning up the heat on Snowball Earth

UserProfessor Ian Fairchild (University of Birmingham).

HouseHarker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockMonday 31 October 2011, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Lapis lazuli and the Virgin's Robe

UserDr Spike Bucklow, Hamilton Kerr Institute.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 24 October 2011, 17:30-18:30

Sedgwick Club talks

I know what you did last Summer

UserPart II and Part III students.

HouseHarker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockMonday 17 October 2011, 17:00-18:00

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Summer School Proceeedings

Complimentary tea coffee and biscuits will be served

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room 17 Mill Lane.

ClockThursday 13 October 2011, 12:00-14:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Natural ventilation of double-skin facades, Energy Implications of Stratification

UserNicola Mingotti, BP Institute, University of Cambridge, Andrea Kuesters, BP Institute, University of Cambridge.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 13 October 2011, 11:30-12:30

Sedgwick Club talks

I know what you did last Summer

UserPart II and Part III students.

HouseHarker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockMonday 10 October 2011, 17:00-18:00

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

"Transparency Creates Values: Corporate Environmental and Social Disclosure in China"

Open to all. No registration required. Refreshments will be provided.

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseEngineering Department LR6.

ClockSaturday 08 October 2011, 14:00-16:30

aw571's list

Poster Session

Agenda: 1pm - Overview from Supervisors; 1.30pm - Lunch and discussion; 2pm - Tea and Coffee; 2.45pm - Prizes; 3pm - Close

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseCambridge University, Engineering Department ,Lecture Room 11.

ClockFriday 17 June 2011, 13:00-15:00

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Qualitative Methods for Technical Topics II: issues workshop

Talk postponed until Michaelmas 2011

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room 17 Mill Lane.

ClockThursday 16 June 2011, 12:00-14:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

1st Year PhD student Seminars 2011

Please note change of venue from Tennis Court Road to Pembroke Street

UserFirst year PhD students.

HouseLecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, New Museums Site.

ClockThursday 09 June 2011, 09:00-16:00

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Qualitative Methods for Technical Topics I: a survey of local practice

Part II is postponed until Michaelmas 2011

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room 17 Mill Lane.

ClockThursday 02 June 2011, 12:00-14:00

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

Exploding plants: Nature's weapons of mass reproduction

UserDwight Whitaker (Pomona, USA).

HouseMR5, CMS.

ClockMonday 30 May 2011, 13:00-14:00

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

Gas-bubble electrophoresis - an unresolved discrepancy between theory and experiments

UserJohn Harper (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand).

HouseMR4, CMS.

ClockTuesday 24 May 2011, 13:00-14:00

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Experiential Learning, Ecological Literacy and Sustainable Design Training

Complimentary tea coffee and biscuits will be served

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room 17 Mill Lane.

ClockThursday 19 May 2011, 12:00-14:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

How little we know about geological carbon storage

UserProf Mike Bickle, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 19 May 2011, 11:30-12:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Dense suspension rheology, normal stresses, and migration

UserElisabeth Guazzelli, GK Batchelor Lecturer, IUSTI Marseille.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 13 May 2011, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Some applications and mechanics for the cracking of stiff films supported on compliant substrates

Please note this is a Mechanics Colloquia

UserProfessor Michael Thouless, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

ClockFriday 13 May 2011, 14:00-14:30

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Effects of natural convection on thermal explosions in a closed vessel

UserTing-Yueh Liu, PhD Candidate, Chemical Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 12 May 2011, 11:30-12:30

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

Falling clouds and jets of particles

GK Batchelor Lecture

UserÉlisabeth Guazzelli (Marseille).

HouseMR5, CMS.

ClockMonday 09 May 2011, 13:00-14:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Urban water security - a possibility or pipedream?

UserDr Kalanithy Vairavamoorthy, Director, School of Global Sustainability, University of South Florida.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 04 May 2011, 18:00-19:30

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Experimental and Theoretical Modeling of Internal Tide Generation

UserMorris R. Flynn, Ph.D., P.Eng., Assistant Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Univ. of Alberta.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 28 April 2011, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Carbon Footprint

Why We Resist The Truth

UserClive Hamilton, Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Canberra.

HouseMichaelhouse, St. Michael’s Church, Trinity Street, Camb CB2 1SU.

ClockWednesday 27 April 2011, 19:30-21:30

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Decarbonising the transport system

UserProfessor David Cebon and Professor Nick Collings ( Cambridge University Engineering Department) and Mark White (Jaguar Land Rover).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 16 March 2011, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

SOAP FILMS AND THE ATTRACTIONS OF CLASSICAL PHYSICS

UserProfessor Simon J Schaffer, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockMonday 14 March 2011, 17:30-18:30

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Managing the risks of regional climate change using knowledge action networks

UserProfesor Charles Kennel (University of California, San Diego; formerly , Director of the Scripps Institute of Oceanogaphy).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 09 March 2011, 18:00-19:30

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Inventing apparatus and processes

UserProfessor Malcolm Mackley, Dept of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge.

HouseLecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering.

ClockWednesday 09 March 2011, 14:00-15:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Part III Presentations

UserHarry Frankish Becky Welbourn Paul Verhaak Earth Sciences Part III students.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 03 March 2011, 11:30-12:30

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

A Sustainable Future- The Leadership Challenge of our Time

UserDr Goran Carstedt ( Chairman of the Natural Step International and Senior Director of the Clinton Climate Change Initiative).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 02 March 2011, 18:00-19:30

Sedgwick Club talks

Title to be confirmed

UserProf. Gillian R. Foulger, (Durham Universitry).

HouseHarker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockMonday 28 February 2011, 17:00-18:00

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

Excitation of Bloch waves at the edge of a crystal

UserIan Thompson (Loughborough).

HouseMR5, CMS.

ClockMonday 28 February 2011, 13:00-14:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

TBA

UserThierry Alboussiere (ENS Lyon).

HouseCMS, MR9.

ClockThursday 24 February 2011, 14:05-15:15

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

How to Enhance Value to Historic Context Through Contemporary Interventions

Complimentary tea coffee and biscuits will be served

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room 17 Mill Lane.

ClockThursday 24 February 2011, 12:00-14:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Sustainable Energy - an industry view on the obstacles and opportunities

UserProfessor Ellen Williams ( BP Chief Scientist, formerly Director of University of Maryland Material Research Science and Engineering Centre).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 23 February 2011, 18:00-19:30

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Technical context for deepwater drilling and oil spill response

UserDr Ellen Williams – Chief Scientist BP, Dr Andy Leonard – Cambridge coordinator BP.

HouseLecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering.

ClockWednesday 23 February 2011, 14:00-15:00

Sedgwick Club talks

The Two Types of El Nino and Their Consequences

UserProf. Hans-F. Graf (University of Cambridge, Geography Dept.).

HouseHarker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockMonday 21 February 2011, 17:00-18:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Numerical modelling of the respiratory system.

UserBertrand Maury, Laboratoire de Mathématiques, Université Paris Sud.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 17 February 2011, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

FRAGMENTS AND DROPLETS

UserProfessor Chris Abell, Department of Chemistry.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockMonday 14 February 2011, 17:30-18:30

Sedgwick Club talks

Mount Erebus, Antarctica

UserDr Clive Oppenheimer (University of Cambridge).

HouseHarker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockMonday 14 February 2011, 17:00-18:00

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

Effective viscosity of active suspensions

UserSalima Rafai (UJF Grenoble).

HouseMR5, CMS.

ClockMonday 14 February 2011, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Carbon Footprint

Zero Carbon Britain 2030

UserGodfrey Boyle (Professor of Renewable Energy and director of the Energy and Environment Research Unit at the UK Open University. Visiting professor at The Energy and Resource Institute (TERI) University in New Dehli,India) and Alex Randall (Media Officer.

HouseSt Luke’s Church Centre, Victoria Road, Cambridge CB4 3DZ.

ClockFriday 11 February 2011, 19:30-21:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

TBC

UserDr Ben Jeffryes (Schlumberger Cambridge Research).

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, Oatley Seminar Room.

ClockFriday 11 February 2011, 16:00-17:00

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Implementation of System-Wide Reduced Carbon Emissions Solutions

Complimentary tea coffee and biscuits will be served

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room 17 Mill Lane.

ClockThursday 10 February 2011, 12:00-14:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Effects of turbulence on the ignition of flames.

UserProf. Epaminondas Mastorakos, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 10 February 2011, 11:30-12:30

Sedgwick Club talks

Landscape and Climate change through Ancient Egypt

UserDr Judith Bunbury (University of Cambridge, Earth Sciences Dept.).

HouseHarker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockMonday 07 February 2011, 17:00-18:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Sustainability and the Perfect Storm (title to be confirmed)

UserProfessor Sir John Beddington (Government Chief Scientific Advisor and Head of the Government Office for Science).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 02 February 2011, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - THE FLUID DYNAMICS OF GREEN BUILDINGS

Co-hosted with the Department of Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics. A complimentary drinks reception will follow on after the lecture for all attendees.

UserProfessor Paul Linden FRS, G I Taylor Professor of Fluid Mechanics, Department of Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 31 January 2011, 17:30-18:30

Sedgwick Club talks

A Career in Oil and Gas Consulting

UserAdam Law, ERC Equipoise Ltd.

HouseHarker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockMonday 31 January 2011, 17:00-18:00

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Carbon Capture from Solid Fuels

Complimentary tea coffee and biscuits will be served

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room 17 Mill Lane.

ClockThursday 27 January 2011, 12:00-14:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Energy Security and UK Energy Policy

UserProfessor Ian Fells (Emeritus Professor of Energy Conversion at Newcastle University).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 26 January 2011, 18:00-19:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

SPICE: Stratospheric Particle Injection for Climate Engineering

UserDr Hugh Hunt (CUED), Dr Kirsty Kuo (CUED) and Miss Hilary Costello (CUED).

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 4.

ClockFriday 21 January 2011, 16:00-17:00

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

Modelling Flow in Low Field NMR Relaxometry

UserJulia Kowalski (RWTH Aachen).

HouseMR5, CMS.

ClockMonday 17 January 2011, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

ONE DAY MEETING - MAKING LIGHT WORK

NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE

UserSpeakers: Professor Jim Barber (Imperial), Professor John Gray, Professor Neil Greenham, Professor Gehan Amaratunga, Professor Chris Howe, Dr Adrian Fisher, Dr Richard Douthwaite (York). Organisers: Professor Alison Smith and Professor Archie Howie.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockTuesday 07 December 2010, 09:00-17:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Fractals, failure and lightweight structures

MECHANICS COLLOQUIUM (in LR6)

UserDr Robert Farr (Unilever R&D Vlaardingen, The Netherlands).

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, Oatley Seminar Room.

ClockFriday 03 December 2010, 14:30-15:30

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Fractals, Failure and Lightweight Structures

UserRobert Farr, Structured Materials and Process Science Department,.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR6.

ClockFriday 03 December 2010, 14:30-15:30

clp31's list

TBC

UserSeung Yeon Lee, Andrea Kuesters, BP Institute.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute.

ClockThursday 02 December 2010, 11:30-12:30

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

Electrified film flow over topography

UserMark Blyth (UEA, Norwich).

HouseMR5, CMS.

ClockMonday 29 November 2010, 13:00-14:00

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

The key stakeholders' response to climate change

Complimentary tea coffee and biscuits will be served

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room 17 Mill Lane.

ClockThursday 25 November 2010, 12:00-14:00

clp31's list

Numerical studies of droplet impacting and splashing.

UserKensuke Yokoi, Uni of Cardiff.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute.

ClockThursday 25 November 2010, 11:30-12:30

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Towards a sustainable hydrogen economy

UserJohn Andrews - Associate Professor RMIT University.

HouseLT6, Engineering Department.

ClockWednesday 24 November 2010, 16:30-17:30

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Function without structure: the role of intrinsically disordered proteins in stress tolerance

UserDr Alan Tunnacliffe, Dept of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge.

HouseLecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering.

ClockWednesday 24 November 2010, 15:30-16:30

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

On the folding of elastic rods

UserElsa Bayart (ENS, Paris).

HouseMR5, CMS.

ClockMonday 22 November 2010, 13:00-14:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Drumlins

UserAndrew Fowler (Oxford).

HouseCMS, MR13.

ClockThursday 18 November 2010, 14:05-15:15

clp31's list

TBC

UserRichard Trueman, Richard Mott, BP Institute.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute.

ClockThursday 18 November 2010, 11:30-12:30

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Revisiting Soot Oxidation

UserProf JoAnn Lighty, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Utah.

HouseLecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering.

ClockWednesday 17 November 2010, 15:30-16:30

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Climate science informing policy

UserEmily Shuckburgh (BAS).

HouseCMS, MR13.

ClockThursday 11 November 2010, 14:05-15:15

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Energy consumption from dwellings : do we understand it?

Complimentary tea coffee and biscuits will be served

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room 17 Mill Lane.

ClockThursday 11 November 2010, 12:00-14:00

clp31's list

Polymeric Multilayer Capsules in Materials- and Biosciences

UserProf Helmuth Mohwald, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute.

ClockThursday 11 November 2010, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies

Risk Writers Event Series: Mastering Operational Risk

Drinks reception after seminar.

UserJohn Thirlwell.

HouseJudge Business School, Trumpington Street, W2.01.

ClockWednesday 10 November 2010, 17:00-00:00

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

Copepod Hydrodynamics

UserAnders Andersen (Technical University Denmark).

HouseMR5, CMS.

ClockMonday 08 November 2010, 13:00-14:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Missing mixing in the ocean mixed layer

UserStephen Belcher (Reading).

HouseCMS, MR13.

ClockThursday 04 November 2010, 14:05-15:15

clp31's list

Lagrangian Coherent Structures in Urban Flows

UserWengbo Tang, ASU.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute.

ClockThursday 04 November 2010, 11:30-12:30

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Decadal climate variability over the past 100 years

UserPeter Baines (Bristol/Melbourne).

HouseCMS, MR13.

ClockThursday 28 October 2010, 14:05-15:15

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Conservation + Sustainability: Can Conservation and Retrofits Work Together?

Complimentary tea coffee and biscuits will be served

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room 17 Mill Lane.

ClockThursday 28 October 2010, 12:00-14:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Getting Organized at the Nanoscale with Liquid Crystals

UserDavid L. Patrick, Department of Chemistry, Western Washington University.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 28 October 2010, 11:30-12:30

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Fischer-Tropsch synthesis over supported cobalt catalysts

UserProf Edd Blekkan, Department of Chemical Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

HouseLecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering.

ClockWednesday 27 October 2010, 15:30-16:30

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

Flow decomposition and aerodynamic noise generation

UserSamuel Sinayoko (ISVR, Southampton).

HouseMR5, CMS.

ClockMonday 25 October 2010, 13:00-14:00

clp31's list

From Confinement to Composites: Bio-inspired Crystallisation

UserFiona Meldrum, Uni of Leeds.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute.

ClockThursday 21 October 2010, 11:30-12:30

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Plastic processes for shaping particulates

UserProf Stuart Blackburn, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Birmingham.

HouseLecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering.

ClockWednesday 20 October 2010, 15:30-16:30

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Social scientific methods for understanding climate change policy

Complimentary tea coffee and biscuits will be served

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room 17 Mill Lane.

ClockThursday 14 October 2010, 12:00-14:00

Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies

Understanding Risk Lunchtime Seminar Series: The Modern History of US Corporate Governance

Lunch provided.

UserProfessor Brian Cheffins - S J Berwin Professor of Corporate Law, University of Cambridge Faculty of Law.

HouseJudge Business School, Trumpington Street, W2.01.

ClockWednesday 13 October 2010, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE - STRING THEORY - A UNIFYING PRINCIPLE IN THEORETICAL PHYSICS

Note venue change

UserProfessor Michael Green FRS, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, DAMTP.

HouseBabbage Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site, Downing Street.

ClockMonday 11 October 2010, 17:30-18:30

clp31's list

How to control structure and rheology of particle-laden interfaces

UserJan Vermant, Uni of Leuven.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute.

ClockThursday 07 October 2010, 11:30-12:30

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

CANCELLED - Physical Limnology: Recent Results from Lake Iseo

UserJorg Imberger (University of Western Australia).

HouseCMS, MR11.

ClockThursday 29 July 2010, 14:05-15:15

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

BPI Research Colloquium:

UserJoel Taylor, BPI & Harry McLelland, Earth Sciences.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 10 June 2010, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies

Student Research Spotlights

Lunch Provided! All welcome.

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseJudge Business School, Trumpington Street, W2.01.

ClockMonday 07 June 2010, 12:00-13:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Engineering in the cryosphere

UserBen Lishman (Earth Sciences, University College, London).

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 27 May 2010, 11:30-12:30

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Soil Mechanics at the Particle Scale - Discrete Element Modelling and Micro Computed Tomography

UserCatherine O'Sullivan & Joana Fonseca Civil & Environmental Engineering, Imperial College, London.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 13 May 2010, 11:30-12:30

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Taming leviathan - dealing with (dis)integrated water management (RESCHEDULED from 21st April)

This talk has been re-scheduled for 12th May, (postponed from 21st April)

UserProfessor Richard Ashley, Peninne Water Group, Sheffield University.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 12 May 2010, 18:00-19:30

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Sustainability in action at University of California San Diego: the campus as a living laboratory

UserProfessor Paul Linden, Director Sustainability Solutions Institute, University of California, San Diego.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 05 May 2010, 18:00-19:30

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Taking Stock: Methods for Built Environment Research

Pecha Kucha evening will be on the 29th April and include complimentary wine and cheese for all participants of the conference

UserNick Baker, Alan Blackwell, Paul Chamberlain, Robert Evans, Wybo Houkes, Michael Pollitt.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room 17 Mill Lane.

ClockFriday 30 April 2010, 09:00-17:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Dynamics of Stone Arches

Please note: joint talk between Micromechanics Seminar and Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

UserDr. Matt DeJong (CUED).

HouseLR5, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

ClockFriday 23 April 2010, 16:00-17:00

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Sustainable Development: Answers from Different Actors, such as State, NGOs and Business

Open to all. No registration required. Tea, coffee and biscuits will be served during the seminar

UserKsenia Gerasimova.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room 17 Mill Lane.

ClockThursday 15 April 2010, 12:00-14:00

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Energy Efficient Cities

Complimentary tea coffee and biscuits will be served

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room 17 Mill Lane.

ClockThursday 18 March 2010, 12:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Title to be confirmed

UserProfessor Simon Schaffer, Department of History of Philosophy and Science.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockSunday 14 March 2010, 17:30-18:30

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

The Energy Efficient Cities Initiative

UserSteven Barret, Ruchi Choudary and Ying Jin - University of Cambridge.

HouseLT2, Engineering Department, Inglis Building.

ClockWednesday 10 March 2010, 17:00-18:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Whither fossil fuels? Towards cleaner exploitation.

UserProfessor Geoff Maitland, Dept of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College.

HouseLecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering.

ClockWednesday 03 March 2010, 15:30-16:30

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

Mode-matching methods for sound waves in lined ducts with flow

UserGwenael Gabard (ISVR, Southampton).

HouseMR5, CMS.

ClockMonday 01 March 2010, 13:00-14:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Regime change in volcanic systems

UserGeoff Wadge (Reading).

HouseMR13, CMS.

ClockThursday 25 February 2010, 14:05-15:15

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Cities of the Future

UserPaul Brown, Executive Vice President CDM Camp Dresser and McKee Inc..

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 24 February 2010, 18:00-19:30

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Chemical Looping Combustion: One Technology for the Clean Utilisation of Coal

UserDr John S Dennis - Reader in Chemical Reaction Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseLT2, Engineering Department, Inglis Building.

ClockWednesday 24 February 2010, 17:00-18:00

Sedgwick Club talks

AGM and Jurassic Park(!) Film Night

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseHarker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockMonday 22 February 2010, 17:00-19:30

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Shape Changing Particles

UserDr Stuart Clarke, Dept of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

HouseLecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering.

ClockWednesday 17 February 2010, 15:30-16:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Prof Kevin Warwick - Cyborg Experiments

UserProf Kevin Warick, Professor for Cybernetics at the University of Reading.

HousePharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road (www.scisoc.com for directions).

ClockTuesday 16 February 2010, 20:00-21:00

Enterprise Tuesday 2009/2010

Enterprise Tuesday 2009/10 - Making It Happen

UserIntroduction by Prof Arnoud de Meyer, Cambridge Judge Business School; John Mullins, Associate Professor of Management Practice, London Business School.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 0.

ClockTuesday 16 February 2010, 18:00-20:30

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

Physical effects on water impact

UserAlexander Korobkin (UEA).

HouseMR5, CMS.

ClockMonday 15 February 2010, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Title to be confirmed

UserProfessor Chris Abell, Department of Chemisty.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockSunday 14 February 2010, 17:30-18:30

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Part III Reports

UserAlice Mannion, Peter Breen & Adam Brewer (Chemistry).

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 11 February 2010, 11:30-12:30

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

The proteome: What is happening at the 'business end' of a cell?

UserProfessor Phillip Wright, Dept of Chemical Engineering, University of Sheffield.

HouseLecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering.

ClockWednesday 10 February 2010, 15:30-16:30

Enterprise Tuesday 2009/2010

Enterprise Tuesday 2009/10 - Getting Investment

UserReshma Sohoni, CEO, SeedCamp; Martin Rigby, ET Capital Ltd; Dan Roach, Investment Director at Avlar.

HouseDepartment of Engineering, Lecture Room 0.

ClockTuesday 09 February 2010, 18:00-20:30

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

Wavespeed selection in non-homogeneous reaction diffusion

UserJohn King (Nottingham).

HouseMR5, CMS.

ClockMonday 08 February 2010, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Just How Does One Make Formula One More Exciting?

UserTony Purnell (Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professor at CUED, Technical Consultant to the FIA, ex head of Jaguar F1 and Red Bull F1).

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR6.

ClockFriday 05 February 2010, 14:30-15:30

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Scenarios for strategic planning in the built environment

Tea, Coffee and Biscuits will be served throughout the presentation

UserJeff Vickers.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room 17 Mill Lane.

ClockThursday 04 February 2010, 12:00-14:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Colloidal flying carpets

UserDr Erika Eiser, Cavendish Laboratories, University of Cambridge.

HouseLecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering.

ClockWednesday 03 February 2010, 15:30-16:30

Enterprise Tuesday 2009/2010

Enterprise Tuesday 2009/10 - Increasing the Odds

UserIncluding: CfEL Entrepreneurs in Residence; Dr Darrin M Disley, CEO, Execute Technologies, Executive Chairman and Comercial Director, Horizon Discovery Ltd; Alan Williams, Director, Managing Resources Ltd; Ian Rhodes, Partner, P A Consulting Group.

HouseJudge Business School.

ClockTuesday 02 February 2010, 18:00-20:30

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Roadmap to 2050

UserProfessor David MacKay, Chief Scientific Advisor to the Department of Energy and Climate.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 27 January 2010, 18:00-19:30

Enterprise Tuesday 2009/2010

Enterprise Tuesday 2009/10 - Building a Dream Team

UserNeil Davidson, Redgate Software; Steve Barlow, Co-Founder, Alphamosaic; Alex Mehta, Communications Director, Judicium.

HouseDepartment of Engineering, Lecture Room 0.

ClockTuesday 26 January 2010, 18:00-20:30

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Stripped naked: charge promiscuity in a redox enzyme as a means to biosensor design

UserProfessor Lisa Hall, Dept of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge.

HouseLecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering.

ClockWednesday 20 January 2010, 15:30-16:30

Enterprise Tuesday 2009/2010

Enterprise Tuesday 2009/2010 - A real opportunity to business

UserDr Greg Winter, FRS, Co-Founder of Cambridge Antibody Technology and Deputy Director of the MRC's Centre for Protein Engineering; Dr Kevin Johnson, CEO PanGenetics BV Former Cambridge Antibody Technology Executive and General Partner at Ash Biotech Consul.

HouseDepartment of Engineering, Lecture Room 0.

ClockTuesday 19 January 2010, 18:00-20:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Mixing by Eddies

UserEmily Shuckburgh, BAS, Cambridge.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 15 January 2010, 16:00-17:00

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Concentrator Photovoltaics (CPV) for Europe: Economics, Technical and Social Issues

UserDavid Faiman - Ben Gurion University of the Negev (Israel), Ben Gurion National Solar Energy Centre.

HouseLR4, Engineering Department, Baker Building.

ClockMonday 07 December 2009, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

ONE DAY MEETING - Emotions in an age of communication

An interdisciplinary scientific ONE DAY meeting OPEN TO ALL who are interested

UserSPEAKERS: Ross Anderson, Bhismadev Chakrabarti, Nicky Clayton, David Good, Mel Slater, Paul White - ORGANISERS: Peter Robinson and Alan Blackwell DISCUSSION SESSION : Simone Schnall.

HouseLecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding.

ClockMonday 07 December 2009, 09:00-17:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Just How Does One Make Formula One More Exciting?

CANCELLED

UserProf Tony Purnell (Royal Acedemy of Engeering, Consultant to the FIA).

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, Oatley Seminar Room.

ClockFriday 04 December 2009, 16:00-16:30

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

Boundary Layers in Horizontal Convection

UserPeter Daniels (City University, London).

HouseMR5, CMS.

ClockMonday 30 November 2009, 13:00-14:00

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Cambridge University Eco-Racing: Solar Cars

UserMartin McBrien - Cambridge University Eco Racing Founder.

HouseLR4, Engineering Department, Baker Building.

ClockWednesday 25 November 2009, 17:00-18:00

Enterprise Tuesday 2009/2010

Enterprise Tuesday 2009/2010 - Learn how to pitch your ideas

UserDr Shamus Husheer, Co-Founder and CEO of Cambridge Temperature Concepts; David Lloyd, Co-Founder of Moviestorm; Emmanuel Carraud, Co-Founder of MagicSolver.com Ltd; Oliver Lamming, Co-Founder of MagicSolver.com Ltd; Leon Palm, Co-Founder of MagicSolver.co.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 0.

ClockTuesday 24 November 2009, 18:00-20:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Tracing human ancestry using DNA

UserDr Peter Forster, Director of Research, Institute of Forensic Genetics, University of Münster, Germany.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockMonday 23 November 2009, 17:30-18:30

Sedgwick Club talks

A geology graduate 10 years on

UserGrace Chillingworth - Environment Agency.

HouseHarker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockMonday 23 November 2009, 17:00-18:00

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

Unusual mechanical properties of protein gels and glasses

UserErika Eiser (Cavendish/BPI).

HouseMR5, CMS.

ClockMonday 23 November 2009, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Impact on Thin Elastic Sheets

UserNicolas Vandenberghe, IRPHE, Marseille.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 20 November 2009, 16:00-17:00

Enterprise Tuesday 2009/2010

Enterprise Tuesday 2009/2010 - Special debate (part of 'Silicon Valley Comes to Cambridge' programme)

UserReid Hoffman, Executive Chairman and a Co-Founder of LinkedIn; Jonathan Kestenbaum, Chief Executive of NESTA; Dr William H Janeway, senior adviser at Warbug Pincus; Prof Andrew Gamble, Head of Department of Political and International Studies in Cambridge.

HouseCambridge Union Society Debating Chamber.

ClockThursday 19 November 2009, 19:30-20:30

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

High-throughput Applications for Heterogeneous Catalysts

UserProfessor Avelino Corma Canos - Universidad Politécnica de Valencia ().

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 19 November 2009, 11:00-12:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Marangoni flows in jets

UserProfessor Richard Darton, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Oxford.

HouseLecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering.

ClockWednesday 18 November 2009, 15:30-16:30

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

Aspects of Modelling Human Sperm Motility

UserHermes Gadelha (Oxford).

HouseMR5, CMS.

ClockMonday 16 November 2009, 13:00-14:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Flow through and around groups of bodies

UserIan Eames, Mechanical Engineering, University College, London.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 12 November 2009, 11:30-12:30

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Instabilities in free surface flows

UserDr Mark Simmons, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Birmingham.

HouseLecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering.

ClockWednesday 11 November 2009, 15:30-16:30

Enterprise Tuesday 2009/2010

Enterprise Tuesday 2009/10 - Recognising Opportunities

UserDavid Cleevely, Founder of Analysys; Dr Andy Richards, Biotechnology Entrepreneur.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 0.

ClockTuesday 10 November 2009, 18:00-20:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Hearing loss and hearing aids

UserProfessor Brian C J Moore, FMedSci FRS, Professor of Auditory Perception.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockMonday 09 November 2009, 17:30-18:30

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

Arctic sea ice thickness

UserJoao Rodrigues (DAMTP).

HouseMR5, CMS.

ClockMonday 09 November 2009, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Tissue Contact Mechanics

UserGeorges Debregeas: Ecole Normale Supérieure / CNRS.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR6.

ClockFriday 06 November 2009, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies

Managing the Risks from Natural Catastrophes: Are We Making Progress?

UserProf. Robin Spence, Director of Cambridge University Centre for Risk in the Built Environment.

HouseJudge Business School, Trumpington Street, Room W2.02.

ClockThursday 05 November 2009, 13:00-14:00

Enterprise Tuesday 2009/2010

Enterprise Tuesday 2009/2010 - Rapid Business Growth

UserSanjeev Bikhchandani, CEO and Co-Founder Naukri.com.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 0.

ClockTuesday 03 November 2009, 18:00-20:30

Sedgwick Club talks

Geology in Antarctica through the ages

UserDr Tara Deen - British Antarctic Survey.

HouseHarker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockMonday 02 November 2009, 17:00-18:00

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

The ultrafast trap of an aquatic carnivorous plant

UserPhilippe Marmottant (UJF Grenoble).

HouseMR5, CMS.

ClockMonday 02 November 2009, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Sir David King - 21st Century Challanges

UserSir David King - Former chief scientific advisor to the UK government.

HouseUnion Society Building, 9a Bridge Street.

ClockFriday 30 October 2009, 20:00-21:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Seismogenic fracture of magma

UserHugh Tuffen (Lancaster).

HouseMR13, CMS.

ClockThursday 29 October 2009, 14:05-15:15

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

An interdisciplinary approach for decarbonising the built environment

http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/page/388/programme-2009-10.htm

UserTina Fawcett (Environmental Change Institute Oxford).

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room 17 Mill Lane.

ClockThursday 29 October 2009, 12:00-14:00

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

Plant lodging and sap ascent

UserChristophe Clanet (LadHyX).

HouseMR5, CMS.

ClockMonday 26 October 2009, 13:00-14:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Sailing On Diffusion

UserTom Peacock (MIT).

HouseMR13, CMS.

ClockThursday 22 October 2009, 14:05-15:15

Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies

"Representations of Risk and Uncertainty"- Understanding Risk: Lunchtime Seminar Series

UserProf. David Spiegelhalter, Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk, Statistical Laboratory, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

HouseJudge Business School, Trumpington Street, Room W2.01.

ClockThursday 22 October 2009, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Marcus du Sautoy - Finding Moonshine

Free Event - The Freshers' Squash

UserMarcus du Sautoy - Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockTuesday 20 October 2009, 20:00-21:00

Enterprise Tuesday 2009/2010

Enterprise Tuesday 2009/2010 - Why entrepreneurship is a real option

UserProf Henning Sirringhaus, Co-Founder of Plastic Logic; Martin Jackson, VP Technology at Plastic Logic; and Bill Earner, Investment Manager at Amadeus Capital Partners Ltd.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 0.

ClockTuesday 20 October 2009, 18:00-20:30

Sedgwick Club talks

I still know what you did last summer...

UserSamantha Simic - Talks Co-ordinator.

HouseHarker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockMonday 19 October 2009, 17:00-18:00

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Heritage and Sustainable Development

UserTatiana Vakhitova (Centre for Sustainable Development).

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room 17 Mill Lane.

ClockThursday 15 October 2009, 12:00-14:00

Sedgwick Club talks

I know what you did last summer

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseHarker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockMonday 12 October 2009, 17:00-18:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Cradle to Cradle Design

UserBill McDonough William McDonough and Partners.

House Cambridge Unuiversity Engineerintg Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 07 October 2009, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Voyage to the Beagle Letters, Henslow, Darwin and the Philosophical Society

Darwin 2009 Lecture

UserProfessor John Parker, Director Cambridge University Botanic Garden.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockThursday 09 July 2009, 17:30-18:30

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

14th Cambridge/Oxford Applied Mathematics Meeting

UserA. Cantabrigian and A.N. Oxonian.

HouseMR2, CMS.

ClockTuesday 16 June 2009, 11:00-17:30

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

Different approaches to modelling angiogenesis

UserHelen Byrne (Nottingham).

HouseMR14, CMS.

ClockMonday 01 June 2009, 13:00-14:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Dispersion Relations for the Nonlinear Response of Chaotic Dynamical Systems

UserValerio Lucarini, Department of Physics, University of Bologna.

HouseMR14, CMS.

ClockWednesday 27 May 2009, 11:00-12:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

An Afternoon of Talks by Second Year Students

UserA. Holyoake, D. Takagi, K. Drescher, R. Robison, I. Vlahou, H. Rein, J. Gjorgjieva, R. Wood, K. Richardson, A. Barker, D. Pihler.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 22 May 2009, 14:15-17:15

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

A new approach to oscillating flows

UserVladimir Vladimirov (York).

HouseMR5, CMS.

ClockMonday 18 May 2009, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Onsager's Conjecture and Turbulent Dissipation

UserSusan Friedlander, University of Southern California.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 15 May 2009, 16:15-17:15

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

William MCDonough (CANCELLED)

UserWilliam McDonough Author of "Cradle to Cradle".

HouseCANCELLED.

ClockWednesday 06 May 2009, 00:00-00:00

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

Drops climbing uphill on an oscillating substrate

UserEugene Benilov (Limerick).

HouseMR5, CMS.

ClockMonday 04 May 2009, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

SciSoc Annual Founders' Dinner with Simon Baron-Cohen

Tickets on sale now: visit http://groupspaces.com/SciSoc/e/11972?s=e223a8bf

UserProfessor Simon Baron-Cohen, Director of the Autism Research Centre at the University of Cambridge.

HousePharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road (www.scisoc.com for directions).

ClockMonday 27 April 2009, 18:00-22:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Cracking during lateral drying of alumina suspensions

UserDr W. J. Clegg, from the Gordon Laboratory, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 23 April 2009, 11:30-12:30

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Semi-Analytic Modeling of Micro-Defects in an Infinite Semi-Infinite Matrix

Please note this is to be held in the Oatley Seminar Room

UserProfessor Leon Keer (Northwestern University).

HouseDepartment of Engineering - Oatley Seminar Room.

ClockMonday 23 March 2009, 14:15-15:30

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Innovating to sustainability

UserProfessor Charles Ainger, MWH Ltd and Centre for Sustainable Development, Cambridge University.

HouseLecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street.

ClockWednesday 11 March 2009, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Machines that see

UserProfessor Andrew Blake FRS FREng, Microsoft Research.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockMonday 09 March 2009, 17:30-18:30

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

Dielectric elastomer composites for actuator applications

UserKaushik Bhattacharya (CalTech).

HouseMR15, CMS.

ClockMonday 09 March 2009, 13:00-14:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Internal wave beams: Transport and attractors.

UserJeroen Hazewinkel, Netherlands Institute for Sea Research.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 05 March 2009, 11:30-12:30

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

The role of fuel cell technology in a low carbon economy

UserNigel Brandon, Professor of Sustainable Development in Energy - Imperial College.

HouseLR2, Engineering Department, Inglis Building.

ClockWednesday 04 March 2009, 17:00-18:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Sustainable Organic Fuels for Transport

UserDr Richard Pearson, Lotus Engineering, Norwich, Norfolk, UK.

HouseLecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering.

ClockWednesday 04 March 2009, 15:30-16:30

Sedgwick Club talks

Geology 50 years ago

UserProf. Dan McKenzie.

HouseHarker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockMonday 02 March 2009, 17:00-18:00

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

Kinematics of disordered cellular systems

UserAlexandre Kabla (Engineering, Cambridge).

HouseMR15, CMS.

ClockMonday 02 March 2009, 13:00-14:00

Wildlife and Environment

Alternatives to Fossil Fuels

David MacKay is a wonderful speaker: lively, funny, wonderfully clear and easy to follow. Do not think that you cannot understand the problem, or that talks by professors of physics are not for you. Professors are not what they used to be!

UserDavid MacKay, Professor in the Department of Physics, CU.

HouseSt John's Church Hall, Hills Road, opposite Homerton College.

ClockWednesday 25 February 2009, 19:30-21:45

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Disease Biomarkers in first-onset Schizophrenia

UserDr Sabine Bahn, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge.

HouseLecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering.

ClockWednesday 25 February 2009, 15:30-16:30

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

The dynamics of sheared granular layers

UserJerry Gollub (Haverford College and DAMTP).

HouseMR15, CMS.

ClockMonday 23 February 2009, 13:00-14:00

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Transportation in a Climate-Constrained World

UserAndreas Schäfer, Lecturer in Architecture - University of Cambridge.

HouseLR2, Engineering Department, Inglis Building.

ClockWednesday 18 February 2009, 17:00-18:00

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

Jet noise modelling

UserMohammed Afsar (Engineering, Cambridge).

HouseMR15, CMS.

ClockMonday 16 February 2009, 13:00-14:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

BPI Research Colloquia

UserLotty Gladstone, Michael O'Sullivan, Maynard Marrion - BP Institute.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 12 February 2009, 11:30-12:30

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Water, health and sustainable development

UserDr Jamie Bartram, Co-ordinator of Water, Sanitation and Health at the World Health Organisation.

HouseLecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street.

ClockWednesday 11 February 2009, 18:00-19:30

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Exhaust After-treatment Catalysis

UserDr Andrew York, Johnson Matthey and Dept of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge..

HouseLecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering.

ClockWednesday 11 February 2009, 15:30-16:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Planar cell polarity: a large or small part of animal development?

UserDr Peter A Lawrence FRS, Department of Zoology and MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockMonday 09 February 2009, 17:30-18:30

Sedgwick Club talks

Sedgwick Club Meal

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseHarker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockMonday 09 February 2009, 17:00-00:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Fluid Dynamics in Developmental Biology

UserJulyan Cartwright, CSIC-Universidad de Granada.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 06 February 2009, 16:00-17:00

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Energy use in the University of Cambridge

UserPaul Hasley, University Energy Manager - University of Cambridge.

HouseLR2, Engineering Department, Inglis Building.

ClockWednesday 04 February 2009, 17:00-18:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Thin Film Electrohydrodynamics

UserDemetrios Papageorgiou, Imperial College London.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 30 January 2009, 16:00-17:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Colloidal interfaces in confinement

UserDirk Aarts, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, University of Oxford.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 29 January 2009, 11:30-12:30

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Protein aggregation: teasing out generalities

UserProfessor Athene Donald, Cavendish Laboratories, University of Cambridge.

HouseLecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering.

ClockWednesday 21 January 2009, 15:30-16:30

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

Tear Films

UserChris Breward (Oxford).

HouseMR15, CMS.

ClockMonday 19 January 2009, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

ONE DAY MEETING - Pluripotency, reprogramming and stem cells

REGISTER BY EMAIL TO: philosoc@hermes.cam.ac.uk

UserSPEAKERS: Peter Andrews, Robin Lovell-Badge, James Byrne, Ian Chambers, Kevin Eggan, Martin Evans, Stephen Minger, Alison Murdoch and Kevin Shakesheff, CHAIRED BY: Chris Graham and Richard Gardiner, ORGANISERS: Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz and John Gurdon.

HouseFitzwilliam College Auditorium.

ClockFriday 12 December 2008, 09:00-18:00

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Energy efficiency opportunities from heat pumps

UserAlex White - Senior Lecturer in Thermofluids, University of Cambridge.

HouseLR4, Engineering Department, Baker Building.

ClockWednesday 26 November 2008, 17:00-18:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Extreme Natural Hazards

UserHerbert Huppert FRS, Professor of Theoretical Geophysics and Director of the Institute of Theoretical Geophysics, University of Cambridge.

HousePharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 25 November 2008, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

All cells are born equal, but some are more equal than others

UserDr Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK, The Gurdon Institute.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockMonday 24 November 2008, 17:30-18:30

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

Wet turbulence: adding clouds to Boussinesq

UserPeter Bartello (McGill and INI).

HouseMR5, CMS.

ClockMonday 24 November 2008, 13:05-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Mathematical Modeling for Medicine, Sports, and the Environment

UserAlfio Quarteroni, EPFL, Lausanne and MOX, Politecnico di Milano.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 21 November 2008, 16:00-17:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Direct synthesis and spinning of carbon nanotube fibres

UserProfessor Alan Windle, Dept of Materials Science and Metellurgy, University of Cambridge.

HouseLecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering.

ClockWednesday 19 November 2008, 15:30-16:30

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

Near-shore wave-vortex interactions and rip currents

UserEmanuele Terrile (Genova).

HouseMR5, CMS.

ClockMonday 17 November 2008, 13:05-14:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Snowflakes: Letters from the sky and scientific messages from far beyond.

UserProfessor John Wettlaufer, Bateman Professor of Geophysics & Physics, Yale University.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 13 November 2008, 11:30-12:30

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Britain’s building stock: a carbon challenge

UserMichael Kelly - Professor of Technology, University of Cambridge.

HouseLR4, Engineering Department, Baker Building.

ClockWednesday 12 November 2008, 17:00-18:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Intimate Relations: Human Evolution and Climatic Change

Please note the change in venue and date! The talk is on Monday!

UserRobert Foley, Professor of Human Evolution, Leverhulme Centre, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockMonday 10 November 2008, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Lost in translation: challenges in applying society's risks to individuals

UserProfessor David Spiegelhalter OBE FRS, Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockMonday 10 November 2008, 17:30-18:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Fragmentation

UserEmmanuel Villermaux, IRPHE Marseille.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 07 November 2008, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Fluid mechanical modelling of carbon dioxide sequestration

UserProfessor Herbert Huppert, Director of the Institute of Theoretical Geophysics, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR6.

ClockFriday 07 November 2008, 14:30-15:30

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Dynamics of fluid-filled gelatin cracks

UserOnno Bokhove, Department of Mathematics, University of Twente.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 06 November 2008, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

HONORARY FELLOWS PRIZE LECTURE - Who owns science?

UserProfessor Sir John Sulston FRS.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockWednesday 05 November 2008, 17:30-18:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Computing for the Future of the Planet

UserProf Andy Hopper CBE FRS, Head of the Cambridge Computer Laboratory.

HousePharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 04 November 2008, 20:00-21:00

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

Delamination of thin sheets from sticky substrates

UserDominic Vella (DAMTP).

HouseMR5, CMS.

ClockMonday 03 November 2008, 13:05-14:00

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Energy plans that add up

UserDavid MacKay - Professor of Natural Philosophy, University of Cambridge.

HouseLR4, Engineering Department, Baker Building.

ClockWednesday 29 October 2008, 17:00-18:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Nanoporous Solids: The Confluence of Heterogeneous and Homogeneous Catalysis.

UserProf Sir John Meurig Thomas, Dept of Materials Science and Metellurgy, University of Cambridge.

HouseLecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering.

ClockWednesday 29 October 2008, 15:30-16:30

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

Modelling noisy concentration gradients in developmental biology

UserMartin Howard (John Innes Centre, BBSRC).

HouseMR5, CMS.

ClockMonday 27 October 2008, 13:05-14:00

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

Flows in flexible-walled channels and airways

UserPeter Stewart (Nottingham).

HouseMR5, CMS.

ClockMonday 20 October 2008, 13:05-14:00

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Carbon aspects of the cycles of metals

UserThomas Graedel - Professor of Industrial Ecology, Yale University.

HouseLR4, Engineering Department, Baker Building.

ClockFriday 17 October 2008, 17:00-18:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Turbulent jets with off-source heating

UserAndy Aspden, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 16 October 2008, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE Seeing Nano: optics on the smallest scales

UserProfessor Jeremy J Baumberg, NanoPhotonics Centre, Department of Physics.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockMonday 13 October 2008, 17:30-18:30

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

On Kolmogorov's idea of universality in turbulence - a study by DNS

UserProfessor Yukio Kaneda (Nagoya University and INI).

HouseMR5, CMS.

ClockMonday 13 October 2008, 13:05-14:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Maths, Engineering and Industry

UserJohn Ockendon, Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Mechanics.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR6.

ClockFriday 10 October 2008, 14:30-15:30

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

The dynamics of Vulcanian plumes: Insights from laboratory analogue experiments

The talk will be followed by a bread and cheese lunch

UserJerry Phillips, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 09 October 2008, 11:30-12:30

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Mixing by turbulent plumes

UserAndy Woods - BP Professor ( BP Institute for Multiphase Flow, University of Cambridge).

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 25 September 2008, 09:30-10:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Heavy Vehicle Steering for Long Combination Vehicles - Part 2: Demonstration

UserDr Andrew Odhams and Dr Richard Roebuck (Cambridge University Engineering Department).

HouseOFFSITE.

ClockFriday 20 June 2008, 14:00-17:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Title to be confirmed

Lunch in the open plan area at 12.30

UserTej Bhinde and Seung Yeon Lee, BP Institute.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 12 June 2008, 11:30-12:30

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

An adaptive numerical method for multi-scale problems arising in phase-field modelling of solidification

Lunch in the open plan area at 12.30

UserProf Peter Jimack, Computational PDEs Unit, University of Leeds.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 29 May 2008, 11:30-12:30

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

Reversibility and self-organisation in non-Brownian suspensions

UserLaurent Corté (Ecole des Mines, Paris).

HouseMR5, DAMTP.

ClockMonday 26 May 2008, 13:05-14:05

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

Cat’s eyes in a two-dimensional vortex

UserMatthew Turner (Exeter).

HouseMR5, DAMTP.

ClockMonday 19 May 2008, 13:05-14:05

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Encapsulation by microcapsules

Lunch in the open plan area at 12.30

UserGrace Yow, BP Institute.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 15 May 2008, 11:30-12:30

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

Stochastic modelling of T-cell repertoire maintenance

UserCarmen Molina-Paris (Leeds).

HouseMR5, DAMTP.

ClockMonday 12 May 2008, 13:05-14:05

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Microbial Bioenergy Production

Note unusual day: Thursday, not Tuesday

UserProfessor Alison Smith (Department of Plant Sciences).

HousePharmacology Lecture Theatre (Tennis Court Road - see http://tinyurl.com/rxaj7 ).

ClockThursday 08 May 2008, 20:00-21:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Water pearls

GK Batchelor Lecture

UserDavid Quere, ESPCI, Paris.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 02 May 2008, 16:00-17:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Buckling of elastic plates: theory and experiment

Lunch in the open plan area at 12.30

UserProf Richard Craster, Imperial College Dept. of Mathematics.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 01 May 2008, 11:30-12:30

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Climate Change and Ecosystem Services: Science, Economics and Ethics

UserProfessor Robert Watson (Chief Scientific Advisor, DEFRA and Director of Strategic Development at the Tyndall Centre).

HouseLecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street.

ClockWednesday 30 April 2008, 18:00-19:30

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

Impact of a liquid on itself

UserDavid Quéré (ESPCI, Paris).

HouseMR5, DAMTP.

ClockWednesday 30 April 2008, 13:05-14:05

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Chatter – Causes and Cures

UserProfessor Brian Stone (University of Western Australia).

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, Oatley Seminar Room.

ClockFriday 25 April 2008, 16:00-17:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Pattern formation in permafrost

Lunch in the open plan area at 12.30

UserDr Lucas Goehring, BP Institute.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 24 April 2008, 11:30-12:30

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Title to be confirmed

Lunch in open plan area

UserWY Chow, I Stöcker, L Foley and C Smith.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 13 March 2008, 11:30-12:30

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Lighting for the 21st Century

UserColin Humphreys - Professor of Material Science, University of Cambridge.

HouseLR1, Engineering Department, Inglis Building.

ClockWednesday 12 March 2008, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

RNA: the fourth dimension in evolution or how nurture could influence nature?

NOTE: NEW VENUE AND NEW START TIME

UserProfessor David Baulcombe FRS, Professor of Botany, Department of Plant Sciences.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockMonday 10 March 2008, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Heavy Vehicle Steering for Long Combination Vehicles - Part 2: Demonstration

UserDr Andrew Odhams and Dr Richard Roebuck, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

HouseOFFSITE.

ClockFriday 07 March 2008, 16:00-17:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Transport in heterogeneous porous media

Lunch in open plan area

UserDr Diogo Bolster, Dept. of Geotechnical Engineering, Polytechnic University of Catalunya.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 06 March 2008, 11:30-12:30

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

Title to be confirmed

UserMartin Bees (Glasgow).

HouseMR4, DAMTP.

ClockMonday 03 March 2008, 13:05-14:05

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Heavy Vehicle Steering for Long Combination Vehicles - Part 1: Talk

UserDr Andrew Odhams and Dr Richard Roebuck, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, Oatley Seminar Room.

ClockFriday 29 February 2008, 16:00-17:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Stratified flows: From the lab to the ocean

Lunch in the open plan area

UserProfessor Tom Peacock, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, MIT.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 28 February 2008, 11:30-12:30

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Can we live on renewables?

UserDavid MacKay - Professor of Natural Philosophy, University of Cambridge.

HouseLR1, Engineering Department, Inglis Building.

ClockWednesday 27 February 2008, 17:00-18:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

The Chameleon Plane

UserDr Matthew Juniper, Dept of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseLecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering.

ClockWednesday 27 February 2008, 15:30-16:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Unpredictability and chance in science and technology

NOTE: NEW VENUE AND NEW START TIME

UserProfessor Sir John Meurig Thomas FRS, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockMonday 25 February 2008, 17:30-18:30

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

Modelling Vibrio colonae colony formation

UserLeah Johnson (DPMMS).

HouseMR4, DAMTP.

ClockMonday 25 February 2008, 13:05-14:05

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

How oscillating collapsible tubes extract energy from a viscous flow

Lunch afterwards in the Open Plan Area

UserProfessor Matthias Heil, Dept. of Mathematics, University of Manchester.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 21 February 2008, 12:00-01:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

The Buncefield explosion

UserProfessor Derek Bradley, Research Professor, Leeds University.

HouseLecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering.

ClockWednesday 20 February 2008, 15:30-16:30

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

High efficiency, low emissions: Power generation on the road to thermotopia

UserJohn Young - Professor of Applied Thermodynamics, University of Cambridge.

HouseLR1, Engineering Department, Inglis Building.

ClockWednesday 13 February 2008, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge University International Development (CUID)

Voluntourism? Gap Year / Crap Year?

UserOxford University's Centre for the Environment, VSO, Azfady, Madventurer, Humanitarian Centre (Cambridge).

HouseQueens Building Auditorium, Emmanuel College, CB2 3AP.

ClockTuesday 12 February 2008, 19:00-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Sundials and the calendar

NOTE: NEW VENUE AND NEW START TIME

UserDr Frank King, Computer Laboratory.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockMonday 11 February 2008, 17:30-18:30

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Plume dynamics associated with volcanism: atmospheric flows; submarine flows and lake eruptions

Lunch is in the Open Plan Area afterwards

UserAndy Woods - BP Professor ( BP Institute for Multiphase Flow, University of Cambridge).

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 07 February 2008, 11:30-12:30

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

Fluidics of sitting, depinning, sliding and running drops

UserUwe Thiele (Loughborough).

HouseMR4, DAMTP.

ClockMonday 04 February 2008, 13:05-14:05

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Internal solitary waves in shallow water

Lunch in the Open Plan Area afterwards

UserProfessor Peter Davies, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Dundee.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 31 January 2008, 11:30-12:30

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Directions to 2050

UserDavid Hone - Group Climate Change Adviser, Royal Dutch Shell.

HouseLR4, Engineering Department, Baker Building.

ClockWednesday 30 January 2008, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge University International Development (CUID)

Dr Bjoern Hassler: Open CourseWare (OCW) Consultation

UserCentre for Applied Research in Educational Technologies (CARET).

HouseHumanitarian Centre, Fenner's, Gresham Rd, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 28 January 2008, 19:00-20:30

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

Horizontal convection and blast furnaces

UserSunny Chiu-Webster (DAMTP).

HouseMR4, DAMTP.

ClockMonday 28 January 2008, 13:05-14:05

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Theory of Brake Control

UserJonathan Miller, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, Oatley Seminar Room.

ClockFriday 25 January 2008, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge University International Development (CUID)

U8 Information Evening

UserU8 - Global Student Partnership for Development.

HouseLatimer Room, Clare College.

ClockThursday 24 January 2008, 19:00-21:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Foam Fractionation of Biosurfactants

UserDr Peter Martin, School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science, University of Manchester.

HouseLecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering.

ClockWednesday 23 January 2008, 15:30-16:30

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Crack tips' black box: Spectroscopic challenge to the strength of solids

UserProf. Giuseppe Pezzotti, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR6.

ClockFriday 18 January 2008, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Hands-free writing

NOTE: New start time and New venue

UserProfessor David J C MacKay, Department of Physics.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockMonday 26 November 2007, 17:30-18:30

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

3x3 matrix Wiener-Hopf problems arising in elasticity

UserB Veitch (Schlumberger).

HouseMR5, DAMTP.

ClockMonday 26 November 2007, 13:15-14:15

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Life at High Peclet Numbers

Lunch will be provided after the seminar

UserProfessor R. Goldstein, DAMTP.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 22 November 2007, 11:30-12:30

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Material, Energy and Climate Change

UserErnst Worrell, Lead-author of the Fourth IPCC Assessment Report.

HouseLR4, Engineering Department, Baker Building.

ClockWednesday 21 November 2007, 17:00-18:00

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

No seminar this week

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseMR5, DAMTP.

ClockMonday 19 November 2007, 13:15-14:15

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

The multiscale nature of spark breakdown

UserUte Ebert, CWI, Amsterdam..

HouseMR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 16 November 2007, 16:00-17:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Studies of Contact Mechanics Employing the Quartz Crystal Microbalance

UserDiethelm Johannsmann, Institute of Physical Chemistry, Clausthal University of Technology.

HouseLecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering.

ClockWednesday 14 November 2007, 15:30-16:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Imaging biology in the cancer patient - new ways to guide treatment. (Towards the Star Trek Tri-corder)

NOTE: New start time and New venue

UserProfessor Kevin Brindle, Department of Biochemistry and Cancer Research UK.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockMonday 12 November 2007, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Integrated Coursework

UserAidan Reilly, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge.

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, Oatley Seminar Room.

ClockFriday 09 November 2007, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

The Fluid Mechanics of Floating and Sinking

UserDominic Vella, ENS and DAMTP.

HouseMR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 09 November 2007, 16:00-17:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Numerical models for dam-break flows at the intitial stage

Lunch will be provided after the seminar

UserDr Dongfang Liang, Engineering, Cambridge.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 08 November 2007, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The physics of the Earth's interior

HONORARY FELLOWS PRIZE LECTURE

UserProfessor Dan McKenzie CH FRS, Department of Earth Sciences.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockWednesday 07 November 2007, 17:30-18:30

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

‘The weather within’; 9 Bio-climatic designs

UserAlan Short, Professor of Architecture - University of Cambridge.

HouseLR4, Engineering Department, Baker Building.

ClockWednesday 07 November 2007, 17:00-18:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Structure formation in rotating turbulence

UserDr Peter Davidson – Cambridge University Engineering Department.

HouseLecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering.

ClockWednesday 07 November 2007, 15:30-16:30

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

Instability waves as a source of noise

UserX Wu (Imperial).

HouseMR5, DAMTP.

ClockMonday 05 November 2007, 13:15-14:15

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

An Analysis of Energy-Efficient Road Transport

UserProfessor David Cebon, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge.

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, Oatley Seminar Room.

ClockFriday 02 November 2007, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Vortices and Polynomials

UserHassan Aref, Virginia Tech.

HouseMR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 02 November 2007, 16:00-17:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Marvelous mathematical models

UserHassan Aref (Virginia & Denmark).

HouseMR15, CMS.

ClockThursday 01 November 2007, 14:00-15:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Stirring the Cahn-Hilliard fluid

Lunch will be provided after the seminar

UserDr Lennon O'Naraigh, Chemical Engineering, Imperial College.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 01 November 2007, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Ancient Woodlands

NOTE: New start time and New venue

UserProfessor Oliver Rackham OBE FBA.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockMonday 29 October 2007, 17:30-18:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

The elasticity of knots

UserBasile Audoly, LMM, Paris.

HouseMR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 26 October 2007, 16:00-17:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Volatile geochemistry of volcanic eruptions

UserMarie Edmonds (Earth Sciences).

HouseMR15, CMS.

ClockThursday 25 October 2007, 14:00-15:00

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Sequestration of carbon from conventional fossil fuel power plants

UserAndy Woods, BP Professor - BP Institute for Multiphase Flow, University of Cambridge.

HouseLR4, Engineering Department, Baker Building.

ClockWednesday 24 October 2007, 17:00-18:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

How Repeatable is Brake Squeal?

UserTore Butlin, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge.

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 5.

ClockFriday 19 October 2007, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE, Dark Ages to Dark Endings: The Life Cycles of Galaxies

NOTE: New start time and New venue

UserProfessor Robert Kennicutt, Department of Astronomy.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockMonday 15 October 2007, 17:30-18:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Mixing in confined flows

IoP Holweck Lecture

UserJean-Pierre Hulin, FAST, Paris.

HouseMR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 12 October 2007, 16:00-17:00

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

Cell shape dynamics in E. coli

UserM Feingold (Ben Gurion University, Israel).

HouseMR4, DAMTP.

ClockThursday 11 October 2007, 13:15-14:15

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Engineering for a Low Carbon Future: challenges and opportunities

UserJulian Allwood, Senior Lecturer - Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseLR4, Engineering Department, Baker Building.

ClockWednesday 10 October 2007, 17:00-18:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Design of Experiments

UserIan MacPherson/Paul Nelson, PRISM training and consultancy.

HouseLecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering.

ClockWednesday 10 October 2007, 15:30-16:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Mechanics of skin and fat

UserNorman Fleck, CUED, Cambridge.

HouseMR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 05 October 2007, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS – WHY HAVE LARGE SCALE APPLICATIONS TAKEN SO LONG?

Co-sponsored with Professor David Caldwell, IRC in Superconductivity

UserProfessor David Larbalestier of the Applied Superconductivity Center, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Tallahassee, Florida, USA.

HouseMcCrum Lecture Theatre, Corpus Christi College..

ClockWednesday 12 September 2007, 17:00-18:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Dispersive Shock Waves

UserMark Ablowitz, University of Colorado.

HouseMR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 20 July 2007, 16:00-17:00

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

The Dynamics of Avalanches: Theory and Applications

UserMartin Kern, Swiss Federal Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research and University of Bristol.

HouseMR14, DAMTP.

ClockMonday 11 June 2007, 13:15-14:15

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

The role of packaging in society

UserDick Searle, Chief Executive of the Packaging Federation.

HouseLecture Room, Institute for Manufacturing IfM.

ClockWednesday 06 June 2007, 17:00-18:00

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

On travelling wave solutions for systems modelling chemotaxis

UserHartmut Schwetlick, University of Bath.

HouseMR14, DAMTP.

ClockMonday 04 June 2007, 13:15-14:15

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Long wave transition to instability of flows in horizontally extended domains of porous media

UserProfessor Andrej Il'ichev, Steklov Mathematical Institute, Russian Academy of Science and Professor George Tsypkin, Institute for Problems in Mechanics.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockThursday 31 May 2007, 10:30-11:30

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

Physical Descriptions of the Cytoskeleton

UserKarsten Kruse, Theoretical Physics, University of Saarlandes.

HouseMR5, DAMTP.

ClockMonday 21 May 2007, 13:15-14:15

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Bodies interacting with and through fluids

GK Batchelor Lecture

UserMIke Shelley, Courant Institute.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 18 May 2007, 16:00-17:00

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

Locomotion and Complex Fluids

UserMike Shelley, The Courant Institute, New York University.

HouseMR5, DAMTP.

ClockMonday 14 May 2007, 13:15-14:15

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Oil spill detection and prediction in the Mediterranean Sea

UserJose M Redondo, Dept. Fisica Aplicada, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockMonday 07 May 2007, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Why is Brake Squeal so Twitchy?

UserTore Butlin, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge.

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 11.

ClockFriday 04 May 2007, 16:00-16:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Surprising Discoveries in Violin Playing

UserClaudia Fritz, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge.

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 11.

ClockFriday 04 May 2007, 16:00-16:30

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Professor Andy Woods

sandwiches at 12.30

UserProfessor AW Woods, BP Institute.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockFriday 04 May 2007, 13:00-14:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Sustainable Development

UserProfessor Sir David King (Chief Scientific Advisor to HM Government).

HouseLecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street.

ClockWednesday 02 May 2007, 18:00-19:30

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

A model of blood flow in curved arteries

UserJennifer Siggers, Imperial College.

HouseMR15, DAMTP.

ClockMonday 30 April 2007, 13:15-14:15

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Comic Relief Charity Concert

Songs for Cynical Scientists (and Non-Scientists!)

UserProf Ron Laskey and Friends (MRC Cambridge).

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 16 March 2007, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Beanbags, fish oil and rose-tinted spectacles; navigating the path through dyslexia 'cures'

UserProfessor Dorothy Bishop, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford.

HouseCockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

ClockMonday 12 March 2007, 20:30-21:30

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

Predicting chemical reactions in chaotic laminar flows

UserStephen Cox, University of Nottingham, Mathematics.

HouseMR5, DAMTP.

ClockMonday 12 March 2007, 13:15-14:15

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

One Planet Living

UserPooran Desai OBE (Technical Director and co-founder of Bioregional).

HouseLecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street.

ClockWednesday 07 March 2007, 18:00-19:30

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

Hydrodynamics and Rheology of active filament solutions

UserTannie Liverpool, University of Leeds.

HouseMR5, DAMTP.

ClockMonday 05 March 2007, 13:15-14:15

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

International Interfaces

UserJacquin Wilford-Brown , International Coatings.

HouseLecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering.

ClockWednesday 28 February 2007, 15:30-16:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

What do genes mean?

UserDr Eric Werner, Oxford University and Cellnomica Inc..

HousePharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 27 February 2007, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Persistent Infectious Diseases - Viruses and how we live with them

UserProfessor Patrick Sissons, Regius Professor of Physic, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge.

HouseCockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

ClockMonday 26 February 2007, 20:30-21:30

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

Some Aspects of Burgers Turbulence

UserHa Hoang, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

HouseMR5, DAMTP.

ClockMonday 26 February 2007, 13:15-14:15

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Mixing in stratified fluids

UserDr Colm Caulfield, DAMPT and BP Institute, University of Cambridge.

HouseLecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering.

ClockWednesday 21 February 2007, 15:30-16:30

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

Deformation of a viscous droplet in an electric field

UserEtienne Lac, Schlumberger Research, Cambridge.

HouseMR5, DAMTP.

ClockMonday 19 February 2007, 13:15-14:15

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

The stratosphere and climate

UserMark Baldwin (Reading).

HouseMR4, CMS.

ClockThursday 15 February 2007, 14:00-15:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Stresses in drying films

UserBill Clegg, Department of Materials Science, University of Cambridge.

HouseLecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering.

ClockWednesday 14 February 2007, 15:30-16:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Religious and Scientific Belief

UserProf Lewis Wolpert, Department of Anatomy, UCL.

HousePharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 13 February 2007, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Carbon Nanotubes- the Future for Electronics?

UserProfessor Bill Milne, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseCockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

ClockMonday 12 February 2007, 20:30-21:30

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

Do wandering albatrosses really perform Lévy flights when foraging?

UserAndy Edwards, British Antarctic Survey.

HouseMR5, DAMTP.

ClockMonday 12 February 2007, 13:15-14:15

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Creating and Harnessing Complex Reaction Networks

UserProfessor Linda Broadbelt, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University.

HouseLecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering.

ClockWednesday 07 February 2007, 15:30-16:30

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Research Students’ Seminars

The seminar will start in LT1 at the earlier-than-normal time of 2:45pm, and will be immediately followed by a poster session in LT2 (around 3:45pm), where tea and cakes will be served.

UserResearch Students.

HouseLecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering.

ClockWednesday 31 January 2007, 14:45-15:45

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I Taylor Lecture - Explaining the flow of elastic liquids

UserProfessor E J Hinch FRS, Department of Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge.

HouseCockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

ClockMonday 29 January 2007, 20:30-21:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Liquid rope coiling

UserNeil Ribe, IPGP Paris.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 26 January 2007, 16:00-17:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Knowledge Based Process Engineering: Hybrid Modelling of Industrial Fed-batch Processes

UserProfessor S. Feyo de Azevedo, Dept of Chemical Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal.

HouseLecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering.

ClockWednesday 24 January 2007, 15:30-16:30

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

1st year PhD Students

User1st year PhD Students.

HouseMR5, DAMTP.

ClockMonday 22 January 2007, 13:15-14:15

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Jet noise from first principles

UserNeil Sandham, Southampton.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 19 January 2007, 16:00-17:00

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Nanotechnology and precautionary risk management

NOTE: Rescheduled from Tuesday 5th.

UserProfessor Roland Clift (Centre for Environmental Strategy, University of Surrey).

HouseLecture Room, Institute for Manufacturing IfM.

ClockWednesday 06 December 2006, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Instabilities of Liquid Surfaces: Rayleigh meets Nanoscience

UserProfessor Ullrich Steiner, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge.

HouseCockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

ClockMonday 27 November 2006, 20:30-21:30

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

Modelling the Persistence of Disease: Chance, Determinism and Genetics

UserAndrew Conlan, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

HouseMR5, DAMTP.

ClockMonday 27 November 2006, 13:15-14:15

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

Turbulent plumes and jets with time-dependent source conditions

UserDr. Mathew Scase, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

HouseMR5, DAMTP.

ClockMonday 20 November 2006, 13:15-14:15

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Coating colloids for colours

The date of this seminar has changed from Wednesday 15 Nov to Thursday 16 Nov

UserDr Andrew Howe, Kodak European Research.

HouseLecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering.

ClockThursday 16 November 2006, 15:30-16:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Careers in Science

UserDr Anne Forde, University Careers Service.

HousePharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockWednesday 15 November 2006, 20:00-21:00

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Well Dressed? The present and future sustainability of clothing and textiles in the UK

UserJulian M.Allwood, Søren E Laursen, Cecilia M de Rodriguez, Nancy M P Bocken (IfM, University of Cambridge).

HouseLecture Room, Institute for Manufacturing IfM.

ClockWednesday 15 November 2006, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Stem cells to synapses: how to construct a nervous system

UserDr Andrea Brand, The Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute.

HouseCockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

ClockMonday 13 November 2006, 20:30-21:30

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

Free surface Stokes flows with surface tension

UserDarren Crowdy, Imperial College.

HouseMR5, DAMTP.

ClockMonday 13 November 2006, 13:15-14:15

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

Designing molecular swimmers

UserRamin Golestanian (Univ of Sheffield).

HouseMR5, DAMTP.

ClockMonday 06 November 2006, 13:15-14:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

HONORARY FELLOWS PRIZE LECTURE - Controlling the Cell Cycle

UserSir Tim Hunt FRS, Cancer Research UK.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockWednesday 01 November 2006, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The life habits of the trilobites

UserProfessor Richard Fortey, FRS, Department of Palaeontology, Natural History Museum, London.

HouseCockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

ClockMonday 30 October 2006, 20:30-21:30

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

Dynamical Problems in Glaciology

UserAndrew Fowler, OCIAM, University of Oxford.

HouseMR5, DAMTP.

ClockMonday 30 October 2006, 13:15-14:15

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Research student presentations

Tea and cakes will be served in LT2 from 3:50pm, not before the presentations.

UserPhD students, Department of Chemical Engineering.

HouseLecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering.

ClockWednesday 25 October 2006, 14:45-15:50

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Evolution of the Middle Ear

UserDr Matthew Mason, Department of Physiology.

HousePharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 24 October 2006, 20:00-21:00

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

Walking with sticky feet: biomechanics of surface attachments in insects

UserWalter Federle, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

HouseMR5, DAMTP.

ClockMonday 23 October 2006, 13:15-14:15

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Sentient Computing- Larmor Lecture

Note unusual time and venue

UserProfessor Andy Hopper, The Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

HouseCockcroft Lecture Theatre, Cockcroft Building.

ClockMonday 16 October 2006, 20:30-22:00

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

Confined Animal Feeding Operations as Amplifiers of Influenza

UserRoberto Saenz, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

HouseMR5, DAMTP.

ClockMonday 16 October 2006, 13:15-14:15

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

Right Hand-Left Hand: On the Origins of asymmetry in vertebrates

UserIdan Tuval, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

HouseMR5, DAMTP.

ClockMonday 09 October 2006, 13:15-14:15

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Yield stress liquids

UserProfessor Richard Buscall, MSACT Consulting: Visiting Professor at the Universities of Melbourne and Leeds; formerly of ICI.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockFriday 06 October 2006, 14:00-15:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Yield stress liquids

UserProfessor Richard Buscall, MSACT Consulting: Visiting Professor at the Universities of Melbourne and Leeds; formerly of ICI.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockFriday 06 October 2006, 14:00-15:00

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

Inverse energy cascade, the Rhines scale, and large-scale circulations on giant planets and in the terrestrial oceans

Postponed by one week

UserProf Boris Galperin, U of South Florida, College of Marine Sciences.

HouseMR5, DAMTP.

ClockMonday 17 July 2006, 13:00-14:00

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

Blowing a fuse and the dynamic double helix

UserJonathan Mestel, Imperial.

HouseMR14, DAMTP.

ClockMonday 19 June 2006, 13:00-14:00

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

Gravity-driven granular flows confined in a channel

UserNicolas Taberlet, DAMTP..

HouseMR14, DAMTP.

ClockMonday 12 June 2006, 13:00-14:00

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

Relaxation and memory effects in a granular packing undergoing compaction

Room changed

UserPatrick Richard, GMCM-University of Rennes.

HouseMR14, DAMTP.

ClockMonday 05 June 2006, 13:00-14:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Hydrodynamic modes of resuspension

UserDr Stuart B. Dalziel, GK Batchelor Laboratory & DAMTP.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockFriday 02 June 2006, 11:00-12:00

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

Dynamical mechanism of decadal variability in the ocean

Title changed

UserPavel Berloff, DAMTP.

HouseMR5, DAMTP.

ClockMonday 29 May 2006, 13:00-14:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

The collapse of granular columns

UserProfessor Rich Kerswell, School of Mathematics, University of Bristol.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockFriday 26 May 2006, 11:00-12:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Soft particle liquids

UserDr David Heyes, Division of Chemistry, University of Surrey.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockFriday 19 May 2006, 11:00-12:00

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

Brownian bugs and the Fisher-Kolmogorov equation

GKB Lecturer

UserBill Young, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, UCSD.

HouseMR5, DAMTP.

ClockMonday 15 May 2006, 13:00-14:00

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Emissions trading, energy efficiency, and the law of unintended consequences

UserMichael Grubb, Director of the Carbon Trust, and professor of economics in Cambridge and Imperial College.

HouseLecture Room, Institute for Manufacturing IfM.

ClockMonday 08 May 2006, 17:00-18:00

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

Planetary rings

UserCarl Murray, Queen Mary.

HouseMR5, DAMTP.

ClockMonday 08 May 2006, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Thermofluid dynamics of cities

UserRex Britter, Cambridge.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 05 May 2006, 16:00-17:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Colloids and coatings for colours

UserDr Andrew M. Howe, Kodak European Research, Cambridge.

HouseOpen Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

ClockFriday 05 May 2006, 11:00-12:00

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

No seminar (Bank Holiday)

UserNo speaker.

HouseMR5, DAMTP.

ClockMonday 01 May 2006, 13:00-14:00

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

Comparison of selected models of heat transfer in perfused biological tissue

UserMaciej Stanczyk, Polish Academy of Sciences.

HouseMR5, DAMTP.

ClockMonday 24 April 2006, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Puppet Master - How the brain controls the body.

UserProfessor Daniel Wolpert, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseCockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

ClockMonday 13 March 2006, 20:30-21:30

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

Fluid flow down a fibre

UserRichard Craster, Imperial.

HouseMR4, DAMTP.

ClockMonday 06 March 2006, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Protein Folding. Misfolding and disease.

UserProfessor Sir Alan Fersht, FRS, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

HouseCockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

ClockMonday 27 February 2006, 20:30-21:30

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

Optically controlled formation and transport of drops in microfluidic channels

UserCharles Baroud, LadHyX, Ecole Polytechnique.

HouseMR4, DAMTP.

ClockMonday 27 February 2006, 13:00-14:00

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

Stratosphere-troposphere coupling

UserSteven Hardiman, DAMTP.

HouseMR4, DAMTP.

ClockMonday 06 February 2006, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Evolution of the Earth

UserProfessor Simon Conway-Morris FRS, Dr Andrew Mackenzie, Professor Dan Schrag. Professor Dan McKenzie FRS, Professor Dave Stevenson, FRS, and Professor Steve Sparks FRS..

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 16 December 2005, 09:00-18:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Packaging the genome: chromatin, DNA architecture and the role of proteins

UserProfessor Dame Jean O Thomas FRS, Department of Biochemistry.

HouseCockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

ClockMonday 28 November 2005, 20:30-21:30

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

Assorted topics

UserFirst year PhD students, DAMTP.

HouseMR4, DAMTP.

ClockMonday 28 November 2005, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Free Will Theorem

UserProfessor John Horton Conway FRS, Princeton University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockWednesday 09 November 2005, 17:15-18:15

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

Testing kinetic theories for granular flow using positron emission particle tracking

UserRicky Wildman, University of Loughborough.

HouseMR4, DAMTP.

ClockMonday 07 November 2005, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Our Dynamic Sun

UserDr Helen Mason, DAMTP.

HouseCockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

ClockMonday 31 October 2005, 20:30-21:30

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

Zero-stiffness structures

UserSimon Guest, CUED.

HouseMR4, DAMTP.

ClockMonday 31 October 2005, 13:00-14:00

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

Exponential asymptotics for PDEs

UserSaleh Tanveer, Ohio State.

HouseMR4, DAMTP.

ClockMonday 24 October 2005, 13:00-14:00

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

Squeeze flow of compressible filter cakes

UserJohn Sherwood, Schlumberger, Cambridge.

HouseMR4, DAMTP.

ClockMonday 10 October 2005, 13:00-14:00

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

Are viscoelastic flows under control or out of control?

UserMichael Renardy, Virginia Tech.

HouseMR4, DAMTP.

ClockTuesday 05 July 2005, 13:00-14:00

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

Complex systems: rational modelling ensures fidelity

UserTony Roberts, Southern Queensland.

HouseMR14, DAMTP.

ClockMonday 06 June 2005, 13:00-14:00

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

Bubbles in micro- and nanofluidics

UserDetlef Lohse, Twente.

HouseMR5, DAMTP.

ClockTuesday 24 May 2005, 13:00-14:00

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

Acoustic scattering in swirling flow

UserChris Heaton, DAMTP.

HouseMR4, DAMTP.

ClockMonday 25 April 2005, 13:00-14:00

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

Wave scattering by cracks in ice sheets

UserRichard Porter, Bristol.

HouseMR5, DAMTP.

ClockTuesday 15 March 2005, 15:00-16:00

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

Some experiments on internal solitary waves

UserKristian Sveen, DAMTP.

HouseMR5, DAMTP.

ClockTuesday 08 March 2005, 15:00-16:00

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

Granular avalanches in fluids

UserSylvain Courrech du Pont, Bristol.

HouseMR5, DAMTP.

ClockTuesday 01 March 2005, 15:00-16:00

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

Quasi-modes in shear flows: a working concept

UserVictor Shrira, Keele.

HouseMR5, DAMTP.

ClockTuesday 15 February 2005, 15:00-16:00

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

Persistent holes in shear thickened fluids

UserRobert Deegan, Bristol.

HouseMR5, DAMTP.

ClockTuesday 08 February 2005, 15:00-16:00

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

Rectification of randomly forced flows

UserPavel Berloff, DAMTP.

HouseMR5, DAMTP.

ClockTuesday 25 January 2005, 15:00-16:00

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